The Color of Redemption will show readers how to break down these walls that separate Christians and deal with racial prejudice, not from a civil rights perspective, but a Christian world view dictated by the Bible. Here was where she was raising her children to love God and love others. Here, she could witness God's handiwork in the beauty of the land. Katie's journey will introduce this generation to the ugly racism of the sixties and confront the racial realities that exist in the church today. Katie's rural Alabama farm, which she shared with her activist husband, was her oasis, her retreat. Oddly enough, it was her granddaughter's addiction to drugs that led Katie on a path causing her to confront her fears and prejudices and face head-on the past that she thought she had left behind.

Though she escaped a segregated Southern town, racism and intolerance were not easily left behind. But the memory of that horrible event, and the animosity and hatred it stirred in her, were not easily shaken. Cornell Lynn Books - Buy Cornell Lynn Books at Indias Best Online Shopping Store. Settling in, she was confident she had escaped the horrors of her hometown. Knee-high grass and pink geraniums blanketed the fields in a gentle sway. The morning was hot but tempered by a mild cool breeze. Like a tapestry stretched across the heavens, a golden- orange sun and puffy white clouds decorated a crystal blue sky, as only God could do. Here, she was at peace.Īfter a devastating and horrible event, Katie moves with three of her four children to a relative's house in a majority-white suburb of Los Angeles. A pleasurable sigh escaped my lips as I stepped onto the porch. Her farm, which she shared with her activist husband, became her oasis, her retreat. Raising her family in the turbulent '60s in a segregated rural Alabama town, Katie Parker understood the ugliness of racism and Jim Crow all too well. Phelps CollinsDan Heaton, Malta Spitfire Vs - 1942: Their Colours and Markings (White.

The Color of Redemption by Lynn Cornell