Her oration was published in A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal. Image courtesy of drchanequa.com, and Amazon, The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen, If Mormons could just hang out in the church building, Transracial adoptive families say talking about race is not a ‘woke test’, New report disputes North Carolina pastor Rob Lee’s ties to Robert E. Lee, PBS’ Billy Graham documentary captures preacher’s pull and ambition, Why some Christians want Target to stop carrying a bestselling book of prayers, On late-night TV and bestseller lists, new books on prayer resonating with readers, Chanequa Walker-Barnes resurrects self-care as a Lenten practice. How Eric Metaxas went from Trump despiser to true believer, © Copyright 2020, Religion News Service. In one passage Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes tries to pass these off as Christian prayer in her book “A Rhythm of Prayer.”. A prayer crafted by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is causing an uproar! This book, curated by acclaimed author Sarah Bessey, celebrates and honors that prayerful tradition in a literary form. But several new books about prayer from popular Christian authors have landed on bookshelves in the past month — and they seem to be resonating with readers. Dr. Chanequa @drchanequa. Walker-Barnes mentions Jonah, unwilling for his enemies to change. Dr. Walker-Barnes, a professor of practical theology at Mercer University, wrote “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman,” which is included in A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal by Sarah Bessey, who is the editor of the New York Times bestseller. Ultimately, I hope this feels like what those Wednesday night prayer meetings used to be for me: a rhythm of prayer, in all the ways we pray for all the rhythms of our lives. March 24 at 11:08 AM. The prayer by Chanequa Walker Barnes, Ph.D. has caused quite a stir. He linked to his essay “A Rhythm of Racist Prayer.” His tweet included a picture of a Black woman (Walker-Barnes, I now realize) speaking at Biola University with the words “Reconciliation without Justice is Cheap” written on her T-shirt. RELATED: On late-night TV and bestseller lists, new books on prayer resonating with readers, And then, like her forebears who wrote so many Psalms of lament and imprecation, Dr. Walker-Barnes prays, “But.”. She invites me to reconciliation. And she doesn’t want to hate the ones who are allied with the cause of justice. “Apparently a screenshot of my prayer from ‘A Rhythm of Prayer’ is floating on the socials. So begins the prayer of Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a Black Christian woman and professor of theology who has been working toward racial reconciliation for decades. Dreher’s post is only worth reading as an example of a kind of knee-jerk reaction that demonizes rather than engages. We are publicly stating our support for our sister, friend, and colleague, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes. Cause then they’d recognize what it’s modeled after. I thought this had to be satire. In a shockingly bigoted spiritual plea, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, an associate theology professor at Mercer University, has urged “Dear God” to help her find the “hate” she thinks “nice White people” who aren’t her “allies” deserve. In one passage Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes tries to pass these off as Christian prayer in her book “A Rhythm of Prayer.”. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our, issue a statement of solidarity and support. “But I will trust in you Lord. Screenshots from the book, "A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal," were widely circulated on social media. A Rhythm Of Prayer — or at least the Walker-Barnes contribution to it — is an incantation to the demon of racial hate. The passages in the book are clearly satanic. On Saturday, one of the members Apparently a screenshot of my prayer from “A Rhythm of Prayer” is floating on the socials. For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection of moving, tender prayers offers rest, joyful resistance, and a call to act, written by Barbara Brown Taylor, Amena Brown, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and other artists and thinkers, curated by the author Glennon Doyle calls “my favorite faith writer.” May it be hope for the grieving, tenderness for the hurting, challenge for the comfortable, a kick in the ass for the lethargic, a permission slip allowing rest for the overwhelmed, an anointing for the work … Instagram user Kangminlee added this on this evil satanic prayer.. The FOX News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who don’t see color. A prayer crafted by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is causing an uproar! A prayer book called “A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal,” is a number one bestseller on Amazon in the category “meditation”. — Dr. Chanequa (@drchanequa) April 7, 2021 The associate professor explained that she had written the poem after a friend of hers “ dropped the N-word in a casual conversation ,” triggering her due to her relatives’ slave past. But several new books about prayer from popular Christian authors have landed on bookshelves in the past month — and they seem to be resonating with readers. ... A Rhythm of Prayer debuted earlier this year and made bestseller lists in Canada and the United States. (Amy Julia Becker is the author, most recently, of “White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege.” The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service. The left continues to replace Christ with pure evil. What's new Vimeo Record: video messaging for teams Vimeo Create: quick and easy video-maker Get started for free Sarah Bessey. What if I imagine myself as a part of the Egyptian army, complying with Pharaoh’s wishes to capture the Israelites once again? I am the nice white person fearful of acting as an ally, worried about what other white people will think, wondering whether it is all too extreme, unwilling to give so much of my time, of my heart. One prayer, called “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman,” by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a theology professor at Mercer University, starts: “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people. It’s no secret that we are overworked, overpressured, and edging burnout. Walker-Barnes wrote in the prayer she isn’t asking for help hating the really, really racist ones, the Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis. I read your prayer the night before the blowout. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes A new prayer book being sold at Target and written by black female author Sarah Bessey begs the Lord to help her “hate white people” and the “nice ones. A seminary professor wrote a prayer in which she asks God to help her “hate White people.” Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an associate professor of practical theology at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, which claims a Baptist identity. Contributor Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes. Here it is in another source: "The book, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal, features a prayer from Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Mercer University associate professor of practical theology, that begins with “Dear God, Please help me to hate White people." It reminds me of all the people in the Bible who don’t want to love the people God wants them to love. A new prayer book being sold at Target and written by Sarah Bessey features a prayer from Chanequa Walker-Barnes that begs the Lord to help her “hate white people” and the “nice ones, the Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly veiled racist comments about ‘those people.. We, along with Dr. Walker-Barnes, are contributors to the bestselling book, “A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal” edited by Sarah Bessey. The editor, Sarah Bessey, has also written many other books on religion, one of them being “Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the … A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal ed. Photos by Sharalee Prang Photography and Retrospect Photography. The FOX News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who don’t see color.The passages in …