Thankful for the opportunity to read an ARC of All God’s Children by Dr. Terence Lester. This work can lead to powerful discussions and real change when used effectively. Dr. Lester wove in his own personal experiences as a Black male pastor in majority white congregations to drive home how racism can separate us, but proximity and solidarity can unite us. Particularly in the church, it can be unnerving to experience the type of discrimination, tokenism, and racism that smiles in your face while dismissing your humanity. Dr. Lester explored various ways that this could be harmful to your faith walk, and how being proximate to those different from you can affirm and strengthen both your walk and the walk of others. If you’ve studied race and racism at any level previously, a lot of concepts included in the book will be familiar to you, but I appreciated the references to both Dr. King and Dr. Cone that I will research further. I’m also finishing up Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and several parallels between the two books jumped out at me while reading.  I would love to put this book in the hands of every evangelical that is open to deconstructing their version of Christianity!