July 29, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in person (Location to be announced)
Online Option to be announced
Join the “Spirituality and Justice Summer Book Club” with the Micah Project Merced.
Meetings are free, and we will have an in-person and online option for each book. All are welcome.
Email micahproject@c4so.org for details.
Share your email with us, and we’ll send out notes, questions, and reflections on the book in advance.
(Contact us quickly if you would like to share input on dates and times. We would love a local business or community space to host).
Racism is not about hate and ignorance. It's about greed.
And it always has been.
Black Christian historian Malcolm Foley explores this powerful idea in The Anti-Greed Gospel, showing how the desire for power and money--what some call "racial capitalism"--drives violence and exploitation across American history. In this book, you'll discover:
* how greed historically gave birth to racial categories and systemic oppression,
· the connection between economic exploitation and racial violence,
* lessons from historical figures like Ida B. Wells on resistance and truth-telling,
* practical steps for building communities of deep economic solidarity, and
* biblical foundations for combating racial capitalism through gospel values.
Foley reviews the history of racial violence in the United States and connects the killings of modern-day Black Americans to the history of lynching in America. He challenges the contemporary church to wrestle with crucial questions: How can we become communities that show generosity and resist greed? What is the next step in the journey toward racial justice?
Readers will gain tools to resist greed that exploits others, love their neighbors more completely, and build communities rooted in deep solidarity, anti-violence, and truth-telling.
"Presents a searing critique of the status quo and points Christians to a redemptive path forward. A must-read book for the American church."
--Kristin Kobes Du Mez,
"This book, properly understood and applied, has the potential to topple our monuments to Mammon and make room for real racial justice in both church and society."
--Jemar Tisby,
"Offers us a necessary antidote to racism if we put down the delusions and temptations of greed."
--Christina Edmondson,
"Foley reminds us that the church's fight against anti-Black lynching and its struggle for economic justice and solidarity are the same fight."
--Jonathan Tran, Baylor University