When the Church Woke

"""William Lawrence offers a prophetic and pragmatic plan to confront the pervasive problem of white supremacy within the United Methodist Church and American Methodism at large. With every page, Lawrence invites readers to awaken and act as disciples empowered by a risen Christ to transform a broken church and heal a country disfigured by the congenital defect of racism. I strongly endorse this book and highly recommend that all American Methodists read When the Church Woke."" --Sharon Grant, Hood Theological Seminary ""Engaging and challenging, easily read and scholarly, up-to-date and biblically-historically grounded, attentive to present theological/ecclesial disputes and offering redemptive ways forward, well-documented and terse, enlivened with down-to-the-ground episodes and comprehensive in scope, focused on American Methodism but providing counsel pertinent across Protestantism, When the Church Woke challenges readers to face societal, relational, and family matters that have bedeviled and continue to plague us."" --Russell E. Richey, Candler School of Theology ""When the Church Woke is critical but not cynical. In this extraordinary theological and historical critique of the United Methodist Church in the US, Lawrence presents a church that stands at the crossroads of a deeply rooted racist past and a future with the possibility of exercising judgment and forgiveness to overcome the racial crisis that the church has too long ignored."" --Susan Henry-Crowe, General Secretary, General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church"