The Race-Wise Family

Author Helen Lee and Michelle Ami Reyes
Foreword by Dr. Derwin L. Gray
Publishing Information: WaterBrook
Release date: May 17, 2022
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A timely resource to equip Christian parents to better understand the roots of racism and provide practical guidance on addressing issues of race within their families.

“This is a landmark work for our generation!”— Dorena Williamson, Author, Bridge Builder, Speaker

If you wonder how to help your children understand today’s racial dynamics and respond in God-honoring ways, you’re not alone. Practical and engaging, The Race-Wise Family offers immediately applicable action steps to help you raise kingdom-minded kids who will stand against racial injustice as an outpouring of their relationship with God.
Deeply rooted in Scripture, The Race-Wise Family includes

  • key biblical insights for understanding a theology of race
  • discussion questions, prayers, and conversation starters for your whole family
  • age-appropriate ideas for discussing current events with your kids and teens
  • guidance for addressing the roots of racial bias in the world and your own heart
  • activities and resources you can use with kids of all ages to be part of hope and healing in your community

The Race-Wise Family helps you and your kids celebrate the diversity of God’s kingdom as you take small steps at home today that can make a difference in the world for generations. 

What a timely resource for families to help them cut through all of the rhetoric and arguments when it comes to loving one another! This book is a welcomed guide in dealing with one of the most divisive issues in our culture today.
Rusty GeorgeLead Pastor, Real Life Church, Author of After Amen: What to do when you're waiting on God
In a world full of messages about race and equality it can be hard to grasp the tangible actions we people of faith must take to love our neighbors well. This challenging and insightful resource offers helpful takeaways for every parent- every family- to do better.
Bri StensrudDirector, Women of Welcome
Many young families have recently woken up to the deforming impact of our racialized society but are at a loss about how to prepare their children to pursue lives of harmony and justice. Helen and Michelle have given these parents and caregivers an amazing gift! Full of timely insight and practical wisdom, this book opens our imaginations to a holistic formation that will align our children (and the adults who love them) more closely with God's heart for righteousness and reconciliation.
David W. SwansonPastor and author of Rediscipling the White Church
Now more than ever, we are exiting the path of cultural disconnect and social disharmony and by faith, running the race toward collective consonance and understanding. Though you know the direction you want to go, you may be unsure about the steps that make up a successful practice. In these pages, Lee and Reyes offer pillars to support you on your way to becoming conduits of healing and hope. greater desire to experience God’s diverse kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. I pray that Christians who are unwilling to settle for perfunctory diversity will receive this book as a loving challenge to grow in respect, to build more justice-minded communities, and show our children neighborly love that is lived out to the glory of God.
Lucretia Berry, Ph.DCreator of Brownicity - Many Hues One Humanity, an educator, author, TED Speaker and (In)courage contributor
The racial and ethnic diversity in the US today is one of our greatest strengths and tensions. Like you, I’m a parent who needs this book’s clarifying definitions, memorable stories, and practical ideas to have better conversations and connections about race at home. The Race- Wise Family will help your family appreciate your and others’ ethnic pasts, navigate the tensions and opportunities of the present, and blaze a path of racial justice and reconciliation in the future.
Kara Powell, PhDExecutive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute and coauthor of 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager
In The Race-Wise Family, Helen Lee and Michelle Reyes relieve some of the pressure from adults who wonder where and how to lead their families in racial justice. Filled with poignant personal stories, scholarly insight, and practical suggestions, this book is as tender as it is helpful. If families across the nation implemented even a fraction of what the authors suggest in The Race-Wise Family we would see generational transformation.
Jemar TisbyNew York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism
I’ve been waiting for this book for years. Lee and Reyes have crafted a deeply biblical, insightful, and practical book that I will use with my own children to help them understand their own multi-ethnicity in these complex and divided historic times.
Robert Chao RomeroAssociate Professor, UCLA Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies; Asian American Studies
The Race Wise Family helps us name the barriers of fear, ignorance, apathy, and laziness that hinder us from growing and guiding the children in our lives. Michelle and Helen generously invite us to join them in actively building a generation of kingdom-minded children, families, churches, and communities. Practical, biblically-based, with generous opportunity for self-reflection and education, I believe this is a landmark work for our generation.
Dorena WilliamsonAuthor, Bridge Builder, Speaker
The Race-Wise Family is written with thoughtful care, personal examples, practical steps and helpful resources. Helen Lee and Michelle Reyes are two leaders I know, trust, and respect. This book is a must-read for every parent seeking to learn, understand, and guide their families to engage in this critically important topic and time.
Vivian MabuniSpeaker, Author of Open Hands, Willing Heart, Founder of Someday Is Here
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