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Fulfilling the Dream: Confronting the Challenge of Racism

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_Fulfilling the Dream_ is a book that would fill the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with hope. Written by a white laywoman, it is an honestassessment of both personal struggle on the issueand a critical but loving examination of the failures of religious institutions in addressing this most essential of contemporary problems. As a woman of faith, Branding helps us withthoughtful questions that deepen reflection and draw on the spiritual powers that enable all of us to do the hard work of confronting the demons in ourselves and our society. Having worked with students at a major university, I see this as a text that would be extremely useful for college chaplains and student study groups. I could not recommend it more highly.

Fulfilling the Dream: Confronting the Challenge of Racism fills the need for tangible solutions toward battling the racism that infects our families, communities and places of worship. Study groups within my community and within the congregation I pastor have learned from Branding's faith-based insights not only how to identify racism's powers, but "what to do next" to eradicate, with God's help, destructive prejudice from our private and corporate life. Fulfilling the Dream is an indispensible manual for doing practical liberation theology North American-style.