{"product_id":"crooked-places-made-straight","title":"Crooked Places Made Straight","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Crooked Places Made Straight\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReflections on the Moral Meaning of America\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaphael G. Warnock\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Press, 2026\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9798217058983\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 224 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.6 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches | 0.7 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, a sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSenator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character. Senator Warnock argues that we suffer not from a paucity of resources but from a poverty of moral imagination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis sermon on the book of Isaiah draws from ideals resonant in his own faith and all the great faiths and other moral traditions, offering a bold vision of how to live and relate to one another in the land. A moral topography, he calls it, a geopolitics that centers love and justice, or as Dr. King would so often say, the beloved community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Places Made Straight \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexamines six crises at the center of American life: voting rights and voter suppression, gun violence, mass incarceration, the persistence of poverty, dark money in politics, and the climate emergency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a naive faith, either. As Senator Warnock writes:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Isaiah is no stranger to frustration with institutional leadership. He knows well the perils of public corruption, sophisticated legalized bribery, and a political class more interested in preserving its own power than in serving the people. . . . He’s fed up with political leaders who are focused on their own gain at the expense of the people. “Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves,” he says.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Senator Warnock, democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. A vote is a kind of prayer. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Places Made Straight \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis his inspiring vision for a more just and equitable America where communities thrive with hope and possibility and every child has a chance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eSenator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock\u003c\/b\u003e serves as a United States senator from Georgia and the senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta. Senator Warnock holds degrees from Morehouse College and Union Theological Seminary and several honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of his ministry and public service. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Divided Mind of the Black Church\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Way Out of No Way\u003c\/i\u003e, and children’s books, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eWe’re in this Together: Leo’s Lunch Box\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53596892135738,"sku":"238963","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/2929\/9514\/files\/Crookedplacesmadestraight.webp?v=1781289200","url":"https:\/\/edenbookstore.shop\/products\/crooked-places-made-straight","provider":"Eden Seminary Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}