A House Ablaze: Reimagining Evangelicalism in the Shadow of Racial Injustice

Despite the civil rights progress he fought for in the 1950s and ‘60s, Martin Luther King Jr.—increasingly concerned by America’s moral vision, admitted—”I’ve come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house.”

In A Burning House, Brandon Washington contends that American Evangelicalism is a house ablaze: burning in the destructive fires of discrimination and injustice. The stain…