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Born of Conviction - White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society (Hardcover)
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Born of Conviction - White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society (Hardcover)
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The dominant narrative of Mississippi during the Civil Rights Era
focuses on white citizens, the white church, and their intense
resistance to change. Signed by twenty-eight white pastors of the
Methodist Mississippi Annual conference and published in the
Mississippi Methodist Advocate on January 2, 1963, the "Born of
Conviction" statement offered an alternative witness to the
segregationist party line by calling for freedom of the pulpit and
reminding readers of the Methodist Discipline's claim that the
teachings of Jesus "[permit] no discrimination because of race,
color, or creed". The twenty-eight pastors sought to speak to and
for a mostly silent yet significant minority of Mississippians, and
to lead white Methodists to join the conversation on the need for
racial justice. The document additionally expressed support for
public schools and opposition to any attempt to close them, and
affirmed the signers' opposition to Communism. Though a few lay and
clergy persons voiced public affirmation of "Born of Conviction,"
the overwhelming reaction was negative-by mid-1964, twenty of the
original signers had left Mississippi, revealing the challenges
faced by whites who offered even mild dissent to massive resistance
in the Deep South. Dominant narratives, however, rarely tell the
whole story. The statement caused a significant crack in the public
unanimity of Mississippi white resistance. Signers and their public
supporters had also received private messages of gratitude for
their stand, and eight of the signers remained in the Methodist
ministry in Mississippi until retirement. Born of Conviction tells
the story of "the Twenty-eight," illuminating the impact on the
larger culture of this attempt by white clergy to support race
relations change. The book explores the theological and ethical
understandings of the signers through an account of their
experiences before, during, and after the statement's publication.
It also offers a detailed portrait of both public and private
expressions of the theology and ethics of white Mississippi
Methodists as a whole - including laity and other clergy - as
revealed by their responses to the "Born of Conviction"
controversy, which came at the crisis point of the Civil Rights Era
in Mississippi.
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