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A must read
Format: Paperback
This is an amazing book! The author takes the reader through several works of black literature, expounding on how each work shows us deep things about theology and faith.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2025
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Countee Cullen chapter
Format: Paperback
This book is a great read. Iām not even sure how to encapsulate my thoughts on it, but let me say the chapter, āJesus,ā on the poetry of Countee Cullen is brilliant and a masterclass on discipleship, suffering, identity, projecting onto Jesus. This one chapter could literally be a course in Christian discipleship handling multiple aspects of the life of faith. I feel like Iām not doing the chapter, the book, or Claude Atcho justice here, but I deeply recommend this book and urge readers to really sit with the Cullen chapter and all its implications. What a gift Claude Atcho has given us here!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
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An exceptional, stunningly beautiful, and greatly needed book
Format: Paperback
Have you ever finished a book so heavy with truth and beauty and goodness that you donāt know how to sum it up? Thatās where I am upon completing Claude Atchoās Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just. Iām the sort who marks up books with notes, underlining, and asterisks. Pages with ideas I want to return to get a folded corner. For this book? More pages are folded than not and a flip through the book reveals copious amounts of fuchsia markings.
Full disclosure: Claude is a writer friend; weāve chatted about faith, books, work, writing, and podcasting. Iāve been eagerly awaiting the release of his book, knowing it would be fantastic. You might think I was biased in that assumption, considering our previous connection, considering I received an ARC from Brazos Press.
What I found from the first pages was even more than expected: my friend as pastor, shepherd, prophet, counselor, guide. Claude features 10 key creative African American works to cast a vision for human flourishing rooted in the power and love of God found in Jesus Christ. Just listen to this moving excerpt: āHealing is found in the constant individual and communal turn toward the tender mercies of God, who calls us to a theological remembrance: to locate our history in his, to make sense of our memory in his memory, to process our wounds in his woundsā (126). This book is beautifully written, theologically robust, and desperately needed. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It is stunning.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022
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A rich and rewarding book
Format: Kindle
I highly recommend Claude Atcho's "Reading Black Books," Brazos Press. As noted in the description each chapter is devoted to an acclaimed work of African American literature. I intend to read some of these themselves followed by re-reading Mr. Atcho's corresponding chapter making notes and thinking more deeply about his analysis and discussion of principles of race, Christian theology, and ethics. However, it is not necessary to be familiar with the works cited or go that deep into them to appreciate "Black Books" conclusions. It is clearly written by a lover of literature who is well read, profound, eloquent, and an exceptional analyst. This is a great resource that goes well beyond the 10 works evaluated to give the reader references and footnotes of many other books begging for further study. As a white reader I found myself confronted several times with my own inherent bias. Growing in our understanding of others, ourselves, race, and the Kingdom of God is why we read a book like this. "Reading Black Books" delivers on all counts.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2022
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A Review from Unity Burbank Center of Spiritual Awareness in Burbank, CA:
Format: Hardcover
Anne Lamott is a unique-styled writer who focuses more on expression than precision and in doing so, you can feel her heart poured out on the page and still hear its pounding. In the reading, there is laughter both from joy and from her refreshing frankness and freshness, as well as beautiful recognition of life and ourselves in her experiences, insights and metaphors. Her writing expresses the passion and pain in life, with the ever-present belief in the great balm of Love and connection to the mysterious, loving creator in all of us. She weaves funny, blatant or pained speech (that you can feel are all truthful from her experience) with absolutely piercing-poetic writing, and the combination touches your heart and is a tonic for the soul.
She focuses and expands on three prayers we reach out to God with of Help, Thanks and Wow. The final chapter is on Amen. This book helped me see the importance of little prayers, big prayers, frustrated prayers, angry prayers, thankful prayers, awe-inspired heart-bursts, wordless prayers expressed in tears, wonderment in your gut from glories seen with your eyes or in your heart. All prayers. Prayers are the expression and connection to our Creator and each one is an action of faith that we are at least heard. Others carry an awareness that we see and are seen, know and are known, loved and loving, connected, in relationship with God. There is beauty and power in all of our prayers.
This book would be one to give or suggest to atheist or agnostic friends or to keep handy in times of crisis for ourselves because itās entirely without the pretense of knowing all of the answers. It looks squarely at the mess and confusion of life and of ourselves, the unanswered whyās that will always be there, and instead of trying to explain away in any combination of pat answers that leave one in the end reaching but unsatisfied, she reminds that there is always, always still exquisite beauty, awe, revelations and regenerations in life, in Love. Iāve often thought that one of the problems with religion is actually the attempt to have all the answers, each and every one, which of course fails miserably and is full of contradictions, instead of being content in the Mystery. This book, her writing revels in the Mystery and in the Glory of Love. The prayers that we send to our Creator are a beautiful connection to Love, to Life-Source, to the One, where all answers reside. We have and receive answers and miracles that we need, being part and connected to the One, though the answers may often appear differently than we expect. And even in confusion and feeling like some answers are incomplete, in prayer there is connection to what is whole and completeāGod, and a reminder that somehow, we and life are whole and complete too. In the sometimes heartbreaking tragedies and complexity of life and relationships, in the violence and pain in the world, in our own stumbles and foibles, in the often repeated mistakes and awkwardness, there is grace, growth, magnificence-there is God-for us, in us. And the Love-connection in prayer is always there. Amen.
Sometimes after I read a book and thereās been a little more time to digest, the lessons I need come right to the surface and make themselves clear and known. So, Iād like to share and expand a bit more on the review. Anne Lamott says in the book, āGod can handle honesty.ā Iād add God can not only handle honesty, but absolutely loves it! In honesty, we are connected to Love and in Love, we can receive truth. Because sometimes what we think or feel isnāt the truth at all, but the truth is that we are thinking or feeling that thought or emotion. Share it with Love and Love will show us the way, love us in the sharing, wherever weāre at. Prayer with God is a place where we have the privilege of āgetting real-really realā.
After reading this book, I noticed that sometimes I was preparing to pray or delaying connection with Love because I felt unworthy in my energyā¦As if God was a friend I wanted to call, but because of a funky mood or too heavy of stuff going on, I delayed the call, not wanting to bring them down. Now I see that God is the open line in our lives, back and forth communication, for every circumstance, every mood. We canāt be too mad, too distracted, discouraged, frustrated, disbelieving, too out of touch to pray. God wants to hear from us especially then! This is the time to jump back into Love, back into dialogue, back into the Loving energy and then stay swimming in its precious freedom and connection.
Love is the only place that there is true freedomāall of the Love is in Love, in us, in the whole. And all truth and answers and goodness and infinite combinations of Love reside within Love, so thereās no place to prepare for Love. Love is where itās all at. Just dive right back in. If youāve been out of the loving energy for two days, you donāt need two days to get back in! Slipping out of Love and all the positivity and truths and beautiful things within it can be a slow unconscious process. Butāthe holy instant thereās a recognition that you are out of it-jump right back in! Donāt let the negative, untrue energy you are mixed up in tell you thereās anything from preventing you from returning wholly, fully and instantly back into your true self and connection to God in Love. The ego can try to make us feel guilty for being out of Love and use it to say, āWell, youāve been bad, you canāt jump into Love just now. You did it again, so Love wonāt take you back so fast and besides you donāt deserve it because you failed the spirituality test again. You donāt love God enough. Youāre not good. God is pissed at youāyou donāt deserve all the joy in Love because you didnāt value it or you wouldāve stayed in it.ā Or the ego might even say, āYou need to stay in this energy a bit more in order to do what you need to do.ā All these lies just prevent people from jumping back in right away to the Love that refreshes and loves us and always lends a hand. We donāt need to do anything but start talking to Love! We donāt need to patch up our energy before praying because the only healing, lifting and transforming energy is within the whole of Love! We donāt have to be perfect or believe perfectly or try to know all the answers before connecting because Love is where all the Love and the answers we need reside! Love is everything. We wonāt know all the answers in this lifetime to all the questions, but we can know what we need to know, we can experience the whole that we are a part of and one with and thus experience and know ourselves to be whole and loved and free. Love is where all of the healing and remedies are for each of us. Itās our freedom.
Prayer is a constant dialogue as we swim within Love. We donāt even need to use the word prayer as the word itself represents connection, and within that connection, so many unnameable and beautiful things. God can handle and wants our true expressions, and in Love, we find truth. We are whole, we are ourselves, we are free.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014
