I'm Black. I'm Christian. I'm Methodist.

It's uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, "I've been writing this book all my life," but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times he was living in, which bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day. Our Black lives are an open book filled with sentence upon sentence of marginalization, pages of apartheid, and chapters of separate and unequal. Now this season reveals volumes of violence against Black people in America, which has given voice to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ten Black women and men explore life through the lens of compelling personal religious narratives. They are people and leaders whose lives, demonstrate the tangible power of a divine purpose and evidence of what grace really means in the face of hardship, disappointment, and determination. Each journey intersects because of three central elements that are the focus of this book: We're Black. We're Christians. We're Methodists. Each person starts with the fact "I'm Black" but goes on to resolve the conflict of also being Christian and Methodist. They, confront aspects of White theology, White supremacy, and White racism in order to ground an oppositional experience that resists domination over four centuries in America.