God's call to the church is to love not just those who are easy to love, but also those we would rather avoid or ignore. Leroy Barber, a leading voice in reconciliation and justice, provides a rousing exhortation to build relationships across barriers, offering practical advice on how to do so. Embrace the challenge to show a divided world the bridge-building power of God's love.

Sometimes God's call comes from a burning bush, but as Leroy Barber has learned through urban ministry with Mission Year, more often God calls to us from everyday misfortunes and common injustices. Join Barber as he shares the stories of biblical heroes and everyday saints and discover your role in seeing God's kingdom come.

Drawing upon two decades of mission experience, Leroy Barber exposes the racial divisions within Christian ministries and offers practical and comprehensive solutions for promoting diversity.

Red, Brown, Yellow, Black and White highlights the historic patterns that have created racial discrepancies within missions. It joins the essential canon created by touchstone books like Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith and the ever-popular Race Matters by Cornel West.

With a no-blame attitude, powerful personal narratives from a dozen other black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and white Christians, interactive histories of missions, and the writings of MLK and Howard Thurman (the entire Letter From Birmingham Jail and Howard Thurman's motivational speech Sound of the Genuine), Barber addresses this tough issue in a way that will inspire and motivate readers of all races toward change.

I am a dad at heart, and therefore my love for my own children as well as other children going through the foster care and adoption system is what drove me to write this book.

Leroy Barber's sixth book takes on a slightly different topic: the foster care and adoption systems. Though he gives these systems the benefit of the doubt as having been inspired by good intentions, they have nonetheless had a devastating impact particularly on marginalized communities. The foster care and adoption systems have done some major damage in their efforts to improve the lives of people, places, and children.

Barber chose to focus on the foster care and adoption systems because of his extensive experience with them as a black family. This work is grounded in research, equity theory, and perhaps most importantly, lived experience as a community organizer, minister, and parent.