Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity

Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read. 

Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La Torre boldly proclaimed the death of Christianity at the hands of white evangelical nationalists. He continues sounding the death knell in this book.

De La Torre argues that centuries of oppression and greed have effectively ruined evangelical Christianity in the United States. Believers and clerical leaders have killed it, choosing profits over prophets. The silence concerning—if not the doctrinal justification of—racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia has made white Christianity satanic. Prophetically calling Christian nationalists to repentance, De La Torre rescues the biblical Christ from the distorted Christ of white Christian imagination.

• Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
• Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
• Embracing Hopelessness
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
• Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
• Reading the Bible From the Margins
• Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus