Woke Church

Short thoughts: I am mixed on the title. There is nothing wrong with it, but those that are in most need of the book are probably those that would be most turned off by the title. Woke has a connotation among people that are skeptical of the need for racial justice and I think I would have titled it differently.

But the book is worth reading. The early sections of history and biographical sketches about how the church has been on the wrong side of injustice, specially racial justice are well done. But I think the strongest sections of the book are about the prophetic role of the church and discussion of the prophetic in the Old Testament.

The final section is about how to be active in the fight against injustice. This is a descriptive look at Mason's church not a prescriptive descriptions. These are all in the line of John Perkins, who wrote an introduction to the book.

My longer thoughts are on my blog at http://bookwi.se/woke-church/