“Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church is the newest release from Nurturing Faith Books and marks a turning point for the raceless gospel.

Take Me to the Water offers a critical look at baptism, the rite of passage meant to signify new birth, and the segregation of the North American church that began “down by the riverside.” Proclaiming the raceless gospel for an undivided “kin-dom” that is coming, this living epistle calls on its readers to submerge all hierarchical ways of being and belonging.

Take Me to the Water is a few sheets from my ‘working paper’ as I aim to strain Jesus’ gospel of racialization and call the North American church to repentance for sins committed in support of a racialized worldview and the segregation of human beings,” I write in the introduction. “I am calling the church to live into its baptismal identity through the proclamation of the raceless gospel, because we’re all God’s children preparing for a coming ‘kin-dom.’ Anything less is a watered-down gospel not worth repeating or listening to on a Sunday morning.”

“Starlette Thomas provides the church with a gift, though be sure to open it slowly and don’t expect sugar-coated junk. In an age of shallow theology and scorching bigotry, Thomas challenges us to enter the deeper waters, ” Brian Kaylor, President and Editor-in-Chief at Word&Way said. “I’m a Baptist who believes in congregational freedom, so I won’t suggest making this required reading at churches, but Christians who long for a better gospel than the one given us over the past 400 years should definitely read this book.”

For more information and to preview “Take Me to the Water”: The Raceless Gospel as Baptismal Pedagogy for a Desegregated Church, click here. The book is available in paperback for $20 and includes shipping at Good Faith Media’s bookstore. It is also available as an eBook at Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes and Noble (Nook).