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In US: The Resurrection of American Terror, Evangelical Lutheran pastor Kenneth Wheeler exposes white supremacy as America's greatest threat. Transcending the boundaries of memoir, scholarship, theology, and sharp political critique, Pastor Wheeler takes readers on his own seven-decade-long journey that lays bare the terror of being Black in America. From his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi under the trauma of Jim Crow segregation to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wheeler steadily holds a mirror up to a nation drowning in a rising tide of white supremacy.
US: The Resurrection of American Terror offers a deeply vulnerable and piercing portrait of the human toll of white supremacy and points to the Cross as a place of hope and reconciliation. This is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the toxic and deadly interplay between anti-Blackness, nationalism, and Christianity in America.
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"Rev. Kenneth Wheeler sings the spirit of his life as a black church leader. His voice is bold in concert with black writers and intellectuals. From this witness, we ourselves learn to sing that for Christ's sake every black life matters."
Craig L. Nessan
Wartburg Theological Seminary
"This revelatory book is telling, revealing, and too important not to add to the libraries of those who love the church and seek her newest reformation."
Rev. Dr. Ronald S. Bonner
"The book is important reading for us white Christians... 'White supremacy' comes into light not simply as a sickness of a few on the far-right, but as deeply ingrained cultural patterns that benefit all of us who are white, and who care about justice and equality. This book should be used in study groups!"
Peter Rogness
Retired Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
"Rev. Kenneth Wheeler sings the spirit of his life as a black church leader. His voice is bold in concert with black writers and intellectuals. From this witness, we ourselves learn to sing that for Christ's sake every black life matters."
Craig L. Nessan
Wartburg Theological Seminary
"This revelatory book is telling, revealing, and too important not to add to the libraries of those who love the church and seek her newest reformation."
Rev. Dr. Ronald S. Bonner
"The book is important reading for us white Christians... 'White supremacy' comes into light not simply as a sickness of a few on the far-right, but as deeply ingrained cultural patterns that benefit all of us who are white, and who care about justice and equality. This book should be used in study groups!"
Peter Rogness
Retired Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
A profound and prophetic memoir that every White Christian needs to read. Wheeler draws on his experience of the whiteness of the Lutheran Church in America and how it has perpetuated the sin of racism.
Wheeler was compelled to write the book after connecting the trauma he'd experienced under Jim Crow segregation to the rise in Christian nationalism. Grounded in Scripture, US challenges readers to reclaim the fullness of their humanity.
Wheeler discusses the vulnerability and directness needed to write US: The Resurrection of American Terror, and how the book confronts Christian nationalism head-on through the lens of his seven decades as a Black man in America.
Wheeler argues that white supremacy is the greatest existential threat that faces America and the American church — "a book that probably, I had been carrying around in my system, in my body, for probably 70 years."
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