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The Anti-Greed Gospel Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward Malcolm Foley Racism is not about hate and ignorance. It’s about greed. And it always has been. Black Christian historian Malcolm Foley explores this idea in The Anti- Greed Gospel , showing how the desire for power and money—what some call “racial capitalism”—causes violence and exploitation. Foley reviews the history of racial violence in the United States and connects the killings of modern-day Black Americans to the history of lynching in America. He helps the contemporary church wrestle with the questions racial violence brings up: How can we become communities that show generosity and resist greed? What is the next step in the journey for racial justice? This book will help readers better understand how they can resist greed that exploits others, love their neighbor more completely, and build communities of deep solidarity, anti-violence, and truth-telling. It will appeal to readers across the theological spectrum, including pastors and church leaders. FROM THE BOOK Race and racism are not fundamentally about hate or ignorance; they are creations of greed. . . . One of the most relevant anti-racist Scriptures is from the Sermon on the Mount: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matt. 6:24). In making this claim, I do not mean that we can reduce everything deemed “racial” down to money. Rather, I mean that race has historically worked in such a way as to entangle the exploited and the exploiter alike, to the point that we no longer recognize the snare.
FEBRUARY 2025 • 192 pp. • paper • $21.99 • 9781587436307
Malcolm Foley (PhD, Baylor University) is a pastor, historian, and speaker who serves as special adviser to the president for equity and campus engagement at Baylor University. He has written for Christianity Today, The Anxious Bench, and Mere Orthodoxy. Foley copastors Mosaic Waco, a multicultural church in Waco, Texas.
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