Charles L. Brown, Jr.'s seminal police brutality treatise entitled "From Scapegoats to Lambs: How God's Word Speaks to George Floyd's Murder" recently won a Silver Medal in the Theology Category for Illumination Book Awards and was a Montaigne Medal Finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Awards.
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Charles L. Brown, Jr.'s seminal police brutality treatise entitled "From Scapegoats to Lambs: How God's Word Speaks to George Floyd's Murder" recently won a Silver Medal in the Theology Category for Illumination Book Awards and was a Montaigne Medal Finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Awards. By re-envisioning several passages of scripture in unconventional ways, this book provides new insights for understanding and deconstructing the crippling affects police brutality inflicts on our society and calls out how condoning the abuse of power by police departments has laid the foundation for the escalation of violence in a variety of iterations in our culture today.
"I am grateful to God for commissioning me to expose and confront the socio-political dynamics of police brutality through the lens of scripture," stated award-winning author, Charles L. Brown Jr. "This book explains how the essence of current policing is violent scapegoating, finding its roots as a continuing narrative throughout God's Word."
The Illumination Book Award is an annual, national competition seeking to shine a light on exemplary Christian books that explore various aspects of faith in a complicated world. On the other hand, The Eric Hoffer Book Award has truly become one of the top international literary awards for independent books, and The Montaigne Medal, named after renown French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, is awarded to the most thought-provoking books. For 2022, From Scapegoats to Lambs competed with "over 2,500 books, 25 all-inclusive categories, and nearly 200 judges, and was recognized as being in the upper 10% of registrants," according to Ms. Dawn Shows, Eric Hoffer Award Coordinator. Additionally, the venerable book review giant, Kirkus Reviews, opined that From Scapegoats to Lambs "is a formidable and potent Christian assessment of systemic racism."
Charles L. Brown Jr. is an ordained A.M.E. Church pastor whose multi-award winning book grapples with biblical scripture to help our society understand and confront police brutality. "From Scapegoats to Lambs, How God's Word Speaks to George Floyd's Murder" has been featured on the PBS television show The Bookcase, and numerous podcasts. Full Kirkus review here: http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charles-l-brown/from-scapegoats-to-lambs/, and information to purchase the book or book the author is here: http://www.servantleaderministries.com.
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