Jermaine Ross-Allam

Reckoning with History

History & Biography

“In Reckoning with History , Yoo shines as a church historian with the gaze of a prophet and the soul of a pastor. Yoo serves not only the church’s deep desire to know itself as it is already known and felt by others but also the church’s great need to taste and see the fruit of its racist settler colonial legacies of compromise and bad faith as one means toward that self-knowledge. In addition to providing much-needed pastoral guidance for the church’s critical shift to the responsible repair of historic harms—and away from trendy and counterproductive institutional habits of privilege-shaming and guilt-mongering— Reckoning with History ultimately issues an invitation to practicing Christians in the United States to become the twenty-first century’s extension of trans-ethnic decolonial cooperation. I highly recommend Yoo’s thoroughly researched and story-filled, clarifying and convicting, Reckoning with History .”