Books

Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods By Greg Jarrell A Review by Dwight A. Moody   Nothing negative can be written about this book, unless you are a current leader at First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and don’t know what to make of your own institutional history. Which is what this book is about: their decisions in 1963 and following to reject a recommendation to relocate from the city center to the growing white suburbs to the south and instead embrace a second recommendation to relocate into a formerly black residential and business district known as Brooklyn. Both options were fraught with racial overtones although, according to Jarrell’s telling, that dynamic was not foremost in the minds of the ...