{"product_id":"i-love-to-tell-the-bonnie-j-mccubbin-9781966655640","title":"I Love to Tell the Story: A Pilgrimage Towards Racial Justice in The United Methodist Church","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does a church committed to justice still carry the weight of structural racism?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1784, the Methodist Episcopal Church condemned slavery, declaring that slaveholders could not be Methodists. But political pressure eroded that stance. By 1939, segregation was codified into church structure itself through the Central Jurisdiction-a separate, unequal space for Black Methodists that would last nearly three decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Evangelical United Brethren Church insisted on integration before agreeing to merge in the 1960s, The United Methodist Church faced a reckoning. How would they dismantle the very structures they had built? Who would bear the cost of that change?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a pilgrimage lens, Rev. Dr. Bonnie J. McCubbin traces this painful journey using historical archives and oral histories from those who lived through the denomination's transformation. Beginning each chapter with the haunting question, \"When did you first realize you were Black?\" she reveals how structural racism shaped Methodist identity and what it truly cost to pursue integration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs The United Methodist Church pledges today to \"dismantle racism,\" this book asks: What can we learn from how the dissolution of the Central Jurisdiction unfolded? What was lost? What was gained? And what comes next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Love to Tell the Story is essential reading for church leaders, seminarians, historians, and anyone seeking to understand how institutions-even those founded on justice-must continually reckon with their complicity in oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Tehom Center Publishing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTehom Center Publishing elevates marginalized voices, amplifying stories that challenge systems of oppression and imagine more just futures. Learn more at www.tehomcenter.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bonnie J. McCubbin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1966655649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781966655640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tehom Center Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d","brand":"Bonnie J. McCubbin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114140315903,"sku":"9781966655640","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_800173ec-d6c2-495c-8164-0720212784c6.jpg?v=1769619360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-love-to-tell-the-bonnie-j-mccubbin-9781966655640","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}