A Book About A Current Event
We've asked everyone who accepted our challenge to read 12 books in 12 months to submit one sentence from every book they read. As John Piper says, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.”
This month two different guys named David read Under Our Skin by Benjamin Watson. Here are their sentences.
"The solution to the problem of race in America will be found only by ordinary people, "good" people, looking inside themselves, being honest about the assumptions and biases that have formed, and beginning to change what's in their hearts."
"I'm embarrassed because the looting, violent protests, and lawbreaking only confirm-and in the minds of many, validate-the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment."