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Building the Beloved Community: Maurice McCrackin's Life for Peace and Civil Rights
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ISBN10: 1412094534
ISBN13: 9781412094535
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Oct 24 2006
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781412094535
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Oct 24 2006
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This gentle Presbyterian minister lived and worked among Cincinnati's poor, helped Black tenant farmers in Tennessee during the civil rights era, and went to jail as a pacifist conscientious objector. Building the Beloved Community details the terrible price the Reverend Maurice McCrackin paid for his peace and civil rights activism--defrocking, public vilification, numerous jailings--and the wide honor and vindication he earned in the later years of his life.
Born and raised in the Midwest, McCrackin began his ministry as a missionary to the Middle East, where he experienced a dark night of the soul, beginning the journey that led him from the traditional Presbyterian ministry to a deeper commitment to social justice. In Cincinnati he led the first mainstream integrated church and established a settlement house among the poor. Soon he was drawn to protest racism and militarism. An active member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, McCrackin became a war tax resister. He and several of his closest friends became part of Operation Freedom, a ministry to black tenant farmers in southwestern Tennessee and northern Mississippi at a time when they were being economically strangled for daring to send their children to formerly all-white schools as the Civil Rights Movement began unfolding.
McCrackin was gentle and loving in his personal relationships at the same time he adamantly resisted authorities who he felt were buttressing the oppressions he saw around him. His colleagues within the Presbytery did not understand his version of Christianity, and they eventually removed him from the ministry--only to reinstate him twenty-five years later, with apologies. In the meantime, hehad continued on with his witness at the Community Church of Cincinnati.
This is a story that calls to our attention the critical questions of our time. What is our responsibility in the face of possible nuclear annihilation or ecological disaster? What is the dividing line between allegiance to the institutions of our society and allegiance to our own sense of what is right? Is it possible to live a life motivated by unconditional love?
McCrackin was gentle and loving in his personal relationships at the same time he adamantly resisted authorities who he felt were buttressing the oppressions he saw around him. His colleagues within the Presbytery did not understand his version of Christianity, and they eventually removed him from the ministry--only to reinstate him twenty-five years later, with apologies. In the meantime, hehad continued on with his witness at the Community Church of Cincinnati.
This is a story that calls to our attention the critical questions of our time. What is our responsibility in the face of possible nuclear annihilation or ecological disaster? What is the dividing line between allegiance to the institutions of our society and allegiance to our own sense of what is right? Is it possible to live a life motivated by unconditional love?
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