Dear White Christian: The Cost of Repentance($19.99Value)

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What does repentance cost when the truth can no longer be ignored? In Dear White Christian: The Cost of Repentance, David Riley Jr. delivers a bold, deeply personal, and morally urgent examination of faith, race, history, and responsibility in America. Blending memoir, theology, historical reflection, and cultural critique, Riley confronts one of the most difficult questions facing American Christianity: What happens when faith is used to bless conquest, greed, racial hierarchy, political power, and public cruelty? This book is not an attack on faith. It is a call for faith to become honest. From the church pew to corporate America, from Pasadena to the broader American story, Riley traces how slavery, segregation, redlining, financial exclusion, mass incarceration, and silence inside religious spaces have shaped the inheritance Black Americans continue to carry. But the heart of this book is not only history. It is repentance. Riley argues that acknowledgment is not enough. Apology is not enough. Memory is not enough. If there has been sin, there must be repair. And if repentance is real, it must move beyond words into confession, restitution, transformation, and reconciliation. Urgent, uncompromising, and ultimately hopeful, Dear White Christian challenges readers to wrestle with the cost of truth, the weight of inheritance, and the possibility of a more honest kind of unity. For readers of faith, justice, history, and moral courage, this book asks one unforgettable question: What must repentance cost before reconciliation can finally become real?