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Article: Black and white.(Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South by Chris P. Rice)(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 31, 2003
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Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South.
By Chris P. Rice. Jossey-Bass, 303 pp., $22.95.
INSTEAD OF PLAYING the race card, Chris Rice chooses to play "the grace card," a phrase coined by his best friend, the black activist Spencer Perkins just prior to his tragic death at age 44. By turns funny and serious, Rice is honest to the point of being blunt as he writes about their loving but difficult interracial friendship and their mutual work on justice and reconciliation. Rice is also riven by guilt: not a guilt arising from an inbred sense of racial superiority, but from his concern that the high stress of their ...