Grace Matters : A Memoir of Faith, Friendship, and Hope in the Heart of the South

by Rice, Chris P.

• ISBN13: 9780787970987
• ISBN10: 0787970980
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-22
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Readers follow the remarkable journey of Chris Rice, a naive white college student from Vermont, who was transformed into an insightful man of faith who helped form a thriving interracial community in Jackson, Mississippi.

Author Biography

Chris P. Rice, currently pursuing studies at the Divinity School at Duke University, won a Critic’s Choice Award from Christianity Today magazine for More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel (coauthored with Spencer Perkins).

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
Converted
"What Are All You White People Doin' Here?"	p. 2
Letting the Spirit Lead	p. 15
Middlebury Versus Mississippi	p. 21
The Uprising	p. 30
Aftershocks	p. 38
Puzzling Signs	p. 42
Big Bad Spencer	p. 45
DNA Match	p. 51
Toward the Promised Land
Purple Comforter	p. 60
"One of Us"	p. 67
Second Thoughts	p. 74
Robinson Street	p. 78
Big Moves	p. 84
Divorce	p. 93
Communion	p. 99
Yokefellows
Boot Camp	p. 110
Lem's Truth	p. 118
Reluctant Prophet	p. 123
"From Cain't to Cain't"	p. 128
Blind Curves	p. 135
"A Good Kinda Weird"	p. 143
Never Forget the Source	p. 147
Demons Rising
My Dirty Little Secret	p. 152
Into Urban America	p. 159
Our Six-Ring Circus	p. 165
The Man in the Tie-Dyed T-Shirt	p. 172
Road Show	p. 176
Combustible Knowledge	p. 184
Texas Time Bomb	p. 193
Rescue Attempt	p. 201
Setbacks and Gifts	p. 207
Breakthrough to Grace
Paradigm Shifts	p. 216
Fifteen-Rounder	p. 223
Spencer's Bombshell	p. 235
The Unbearable Contradiction	p. 243
Grace Debtors	p. 254
Separation
Blue Leg	p. 266
Tears without End	p. 273
The Dwelling Place	p. 278
Riding Away on a Harley	p. 288
Sabbath	p. 293
Epilogue	p. 299
Acknowledgments	p. 301
The Author	p. 303
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