5/23/2023 0 Comments Eddie glaude begin again review![]() ![]() Read our latest issue or browse back issues. ![]() Authentic Christian life is ready always for the renewing of heart and mind, ready always to consider the sort of challenge Glaude puts before us. Before all else in the moral life, he said in his commentary on Romans, comes the toppling of self-satisfaction wrought by divine grace: “Grace is the axe laid at the root of the good conscience.” So repentance, even if unpleasant, is essential to the Christian way of being. But if Karl Barth is right, repentance is the primary ethical act. Most Americans-and I do not exempt myself-will be to one degree or another ill at ease with this. His book is nothing less than a call to national repentance. ![]() That lie concerns race, and Glaude, who teaches at Princeton and is a familiar television commentator, addresses the lie with blistering candor. The true American exceptionalism, according to Eddie Glaude, is a lie that hollows out the nation’s soul and leaves its democracy flawed and threatened. It is hard to imagine a harsher assault on American self-satisfaction than the one in Begin Again. ![]()
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