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Embracing Cracks; Deepening Community: A Riff on Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open by James W. Perkinson

Embracing Cracks; Deepening Community: A Riff on Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open by... 1159326 ATR0010.1177/00033286231159326Anglican Theological ReviewBook Review book-review2023 Book Review Anglican Theological Review 1 –4 Embracing Cracks; Deepening © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Community: A Riff on Stephanie https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231159326 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231159326 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Spellers, The Church Cracked Open by James W. Perkinson Embracing Cracks; Deepening Community: A Riff on Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open. By James W. Perkinson. New York: Church Publishing Inc, 2021, 152 pages. Such an amazing survey of history and send-up of complicity—complete with gentle admonition and hopeful direction! Stephanie Spellers’ little treatise is remarkable for its balancing act. On the high wire between academic detail and popular accessibility, this Episcopal Bishop’s Canon marshals much of concern in an easy read of only 136 pages. Not least of the wisdoms offered is her evocation of the centrality of race to Episcopal Church struggles with grace and faith. As Black woman seer, Spellers is at once uncom- promising in challenging the workings of Whiteness and yet immensely generous in allowing room for White change. And it is precisely here that I must myself wax confessional. As a white cis-gen- dered male, hunkered down in the maelstrom of east-side inner city Detroit realities for more than thirty-five http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Embracing Cracks; Deepening Community: A Riff on Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open by James W. Perkinson

Perkinson, James W.
Anglican Theological Review , Volume OnlineFirst: 1 – Jan 1, 2023
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1159326 ATR0010.1177/00033286231159326Anglican Theological ReviewBook Review book-review2023 Book Review Anglican Theological Review 1 –4 Embracing Cracks; Deepening © The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Community: A Riff on Stephanie https://doi.org/10.1177/00033286231159326 DOI: 10.1177/00033286231159326 journals.sagepub.com/home/atr Spellers, The Church Cracked Open by James W. Perkinson Embracing Cracks; Deepening Community: A Riff on Stephanie Spellers, The Church Cracked Open. By James W. Perkinson. New York: Church Publishing Inc, 2021, 152 pages. Such an amazing survey of history and send-up of complicity—complete with gentle admonition and hopeful direction! Stephanie Spellers’ little treatise is remarkable for its balancing act. On the high wire between academic detail and popular accessibility, this Episcopal Bishop’s Canon marshals much of concern in an easy read of only 136 pages. Not least of the wisdoms offered is her evocation of the centrality of race to Episcopal Church struggles with grace and faith. As Black woman seer, Spellers is at once uncom- promising in challenging the workings of Whiteness and yet immensely generous in allowing room for White change. And it is precisely here that I must myself wax confessional. As a white cis-gen- dered male, hunkered down in the maelstrom of east-side inner city Detroit realities for more than thirty-five

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