Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism

Name: Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism
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ISBN: 9781501832512

By: William H. Willimon

Abingdon Press / 2017 / Paperback

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It is imperative for 21st-century American Christians to constructively respond to racism. As a jumping-off point, Willimon retells the story of Pastor Hawley Lynn March's 1947 sermon about a lynching in Greenville, South Carolina. We listen in on black pain, learn to name white complicity, and to critique American exceptionalism. 144 pages, softcover. Abingdon.

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Title: Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism
By: William H. Willimon
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 144
Vendor: Abingdon Press

Publication Date: 2017
Weight: 7 ounces
ISBN: 1501832514
ISBN-13: 9781501832512
Stock No: WW832512

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Pastors and leaders long to speak an effective biblical word into the contemporary social crisis of racial violence and black pain. They need a no-nonsense strategy rooted in actual ecclesial life, illuminated in this fine book by a trustworthy guide, Will Willimon, who uses the true story of pastor Hawley Lynn’s March of 1947 sermon, "Who Lynched Willie Earle?" as an opportunity to respond to the last lynching in Greenville, South Carolina and its implications for a more faithful proclamation of the Gospel today. By hearing black pain, naming white complicity, critiquing American exceptionalism/civil religion, inviting/challenging the church to respond, and attending to the voices of African American pastors and leaders, this book helps pastors of white, mainline Protestant churches preach effectively in situations of racial violence and dis-ease.

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Will Willimon is a preacher and teacher of preachers. He is a United Methodist bishop (retired) and serves as Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. For twenty years he was Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. A 1996 Baylor University study named him among the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English speaking world. The Pew Research Center found that Will was one of the most widely read authors among Protestant clergy in 2005. His quarterly Pulpit Resource is used by thousands of pastors throughout North America, Canada, and Australia. In 2021 he gave the prestigious Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale Divinity School. Those lectures became the book, Preachers Dare: Speaking for God which is the inspiration for his ninetieth book, Listeners Dare: Hearing God in the Sermon.