• Anxious to Talk About It (Second Edition)

  • Helping White People Talk Faithfully About Racism
  • By: Carolyn B. Helsel
  • Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
  • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Anxious to Talk About It (Second Edition)

By: Carolyn B. Helsel
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
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Publisher's summary

"What if I say the wrong thing?"

"I'm White - is race really something I need to talk about? I'm worried I'll be called a racist!"

"What does race have to do with faith, anyway?"

"Why do we have to keep talking about this?"

If talking about racism makes you anxious, afraid, or even angry, you're not alone. In Anxious to Talk About It, pastor and professor Carolyn B. Helsel draws on her success with White congregations to offer insight and tools to embrace, explore, and work through the anxious feelings that often arise in these hard conversations. Through powerful personal stories, new observations on racial identity development, and spiritual practices to help engage issues of racial justice prayerfully, you'll gain a deeper understanding of race in America and your place in it. You will learn how to join conversations with courage, compassion, and knowledge of self, others, and the important issues at stake. Helsel's guidance will inspire you to receive the gifts that come through these difficult race conversations and point to how you can get further involved in the important social justice work around race relations. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection and discussion to further help you get the conversations started.

©2021 Carolyn Helsel (P)2021 Tantor

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I admire what the author is attempting to construct here and wish hundreds of thousands more white people would take up this mantle to confront racism in the face. I did find the book lacking in information regarding how her audience received her material when introduced to it.

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