While you're thinking of your questions, I was asked if I might just say a few things about a book I'm working on called Blood Lines.

I wrote it the first draft of it last April and now this year I'd like to finish it

Subtitle race, and the Christian.

And I don't think that I am an ideal or even a very exemplary urban multi-ethnic pastor.

So I don't write the book from the vantage point of having arrived.

I write it on a quest of 64 years of trying to understand and trying to make write some things in my life and my church and my city.

The thesis of the book is that the problems concerning race both in the processes of moving towards harmony and the issues that keep us from

harmony or reconciliation are only solvable through the Gospel.

In fact, I was just reviewing the manuscript on the plane coming down here.

One of the parts of the book that was most helpful for me to write was to think of all the

sins that hinder both white and black, that's the main focus of the book, understanding that those

aren't the only two ethnicities in America, of course, but that's the focus because of my own history and the history of our nation.

The sins of both white and black that hinder even working on the issue are amazingly addressed by the gospel.

Let me list the ones that I address.

I'll start with Satan. Satan's not a sin, he's a person, but he hates reconciliation. He hates harmony. He's a liar. He's a murderer. He is against us and would love to draw all kinds of unnecessary lines.

Guilt.

Huge barrier for white people

to even think about this issue.

Pride both ways.

hopelessness.

If you undertake, you know this, to go to work in a multi-ethnic situation on the issue,

you could have quit. It's just going to get too hard.

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