In this Radical Discipleship exclusive series, we are asking radical Christian leaders one question.
What are the five books or authors that have seriously shaped your spiritual life?
This is how Johari Jabir answered.
Just Above My Head, James Baldwin
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communist During the Great Depression, Robin D.G. Kelley
The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty Exchange Value, Richard G. Opalsky
The Sabbath, Abraham Joshua Heschel
Johari Jabir is an artist, scholar, and contemplative. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Johari is director of music at St. George & St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Chicago, IL, and he teaches in the department of Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His first book, Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Gospel Army of the Civil War (Ohio State University Press, 2017), is a cultural history of the nation’s first Black regiment, the 1st South Carolina Volunteers.
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