Osheta Moore - Dear White Peacemakers - Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace

Osheta Moore has given us all the gift of humanity in her book Dear White Peacemakers. Her perspective brings much-needed light and hope into discussions on racism. Her real-life stories can help provide real-life restoration. May the scales fall from our eyes. May restoration and healing come. A must-read for my brothers and sisters in Christ.

LECRAE, Grammy awardwinning artist and New York Times bestselling author of I Am Restored

Every white person should read Dear White Peacemakers. Osheta Moore serves as the best of guides for how white people, growing in their racial awareness, can both engage the issue of racism and embody a peacemaking ethic moving forward. She will challenge you, shock you, inspire you. After reading this book, youll feel all the more equipped to seek shalom and healing instead of hate and retribution in our racially torn world.

MICHELLE AMI REYES, vice president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, co-executive director of Pax, and author of Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections across Cultures

In the wonderful Dear White Peacemakers, Osheta Moore gives us the gift of insight, offered from a loving sister wanting all the best for her spiritual family. With Jesus at the center, we can move forward with hope in him as our healer of broken relationships and inadequate identities as mere victims and victimizers. Thank you, my sister, for this compelling labor of love. As you say, Let us come together and be free. Amen!

BRUXY CAVEY, teaching pastor at The Meeting House and author of The End of Religion

This book is our North Star, bright enough to illuminate the anti-racism path and bold enough to offer love for our souls along the way. This book transformed my weariness into a howl of hope in my chest. Osheta Moore challenges us to build peacemaking into our anti-racism work because there is no peace and no justice without the constellation of love.

DIANA K. OESTREICH, soldier turned peacemaker and author of Waging Peace: One Soldiers Story of Putting Love First

Osheta Moores letter to her white siblings is a gift that we dont deserve. Its a labor of love straight from the soul of a Black woman who dares to believe that white folks can become peacemakers. This book is a one-of-a-kind pastoral invitation for you and me to come to the table as participants in the restorative revolution. I needed this, and I commend it with hope!

JER SWIGART, cofounder of the Global Immersion Project, coauthor of Mending the Divides , and cohost of the Everyday Peacemaking podcast

Dear White Peacemakers is a textbook of tender tenacity: never shaming, always truthful. Not content to be convicting without a way forward, Osheta is committed to seeing everyone around her as Gods Beloved (even those who remain committed to a life of violence and prejudice against her), and this perspective will change your own lens for viewing the world. Dear White Peacemakers is not just a book, its a calling and an invitation to drink from the bottomless well of Gods shalom. I cannot imagine a more gracious invitation, nor a more compassionate host.

ERIN HICKS MOON, senior creative for The Popcast Media Group and resident Bible scholar on The Bible Binge podcast

Osheta Moore has written not only an important book, but what some may consider an impossible book. In Dear White Peacemakers, Osheta calls us to fight racism while remaining true to the peacemaking ethic set forth by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. This is a smart and compelling work, and Oshetas voice is both honest and hopeful. I benefited greatly from Dear White Peacemakers.

BRIAN ZAHND, lead pastor of Word of Life Church in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and author of Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God

As a white woman, I believe every white Christian needs to read Dear White Peacemakers. Osheta Moores vulnerability, authenticity, and call to action is a rare gift, and we are lucky to have her leadership in this space. I felt uncomfortable, challenged, and empowered to take steps in my own work around anti-racism.

JESSICA TURNER, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Fringe Hours

This is a love letter void of shallow sentiments, and is one steeped in honesty, authenticity, storytelling, challenge, and faith-filled conviction. Readers will find Osheta Moore is a theologian, pastor, practitioner, and companion on the journey. Dear White Peacemakers is both invitational and incarnational in every storyevoking the true substance of anti-racism in the way of Jesus. Ive no doubt this book will become a pillar in anti-racism work for subversive, holistic kingdom advancement.

ROSE LEE-NORMAN, formation pastor at Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota

I know of no other book on racial reconciliation that embodies the humble cruciform beauty of Jesus third way kingdom as beautifully and as powerfully as Dear White Peacemakers. My fellow White American Christians, wherever you may be at in

your awareness of White superiority and of systemic racism in our country, and even if you currently arent convinced these things are present realities in this country, I implore you to read this informative, insightful, moving, down-to-earth, often funny, remarkably vulnerable, and certainly impactful book!

GREGORY A. BOYD, theologian, author, and senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church

In Dear White Peacemakers, Osheta Moore brilliantly brings our lives with God into direct contact with anti-racism. This book is grace-oriented, Jesus-centered, truth-driven, shame-defying, and shalom-seeking. Osheta Moore refuses to dehumanize White readers, and with the same stroke of the pen calls White peacemakers to put to practice the things that make for peace (Luke 19:42). Osheta is the vulnerable, wise, pastoral voice the church needs as we discern a better path forward for resisting racial injustice. I hope church leaders and attenders in the United States and beyond will ponder her words and put them into practice. I cant recommend this book enough!

KURT WILLEMS, pastor and author of Echoing Hope: How the Humanity of Jesus Redeems Our Pain

In her extraordinary book, Osheta Moore invites white peacemakers to embody the fierce and tender way of anti-racist peacemaking. We do this, Osheta reminds us, by first owning our Belovedness so that we can access the call to courage that true shalom requires. Dear White Peacemakers is both a love letter and a sacred call to action as we navigate this important time in the world.

AUNDI KOLBER, MA, LPC, therapist and author of Try Softer

Painfully vulnerable, Osheta Moores Dear White Peacemakers reads as both her personal testimony and a confession of her deepest convictions. Moore beautifully uses African American spirituals as a healing balm in the tenuous topic of race in American Christianity. Whether she is addressing Black hairstyles in the movie Black Panther or racial slurs at her sons school, Moore is a brilliant guide and teacher. Shes a generous host inviting us into her inner sanctuary, making readers feel well cared forthe true gift of a dedicated peacemaker.

MARCIE ALVIS-WALKER, creator of Black Coffee with White Friends

Dear White Peacemakers strikes a delicate, beautiful balance between enduring compassion and the relentless pursuit of justice. With wisdom and grace, Osheta Moore guides readers through the arduous journey of being actively anti-racist, and her approach overflows with a love that cultivates empathy without sacrificing truth. Her words have both refreshed my soul and challenged my posture in this work, and Im certain that they will do the same for readers everywhere!