Dante Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness- A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere.He received the Georgia Author of the Year Award for his memoir, Shoutin' in the Fire. He received his BA in sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
“Some of us joke about Jesus needing better PR than what today’s
evangelical church provides. Enter Danté Stewart. With unparalleled
candor, vulnerability, and love, Stewart takes us along his
personal journey to understanding what it is to be Black,
Christian, and American. The church is long overdue for a reckoning
with white supremacy, and Stewart has written a brilliant
blueprint.”—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church
Ladies
“Danté Stewart breaks himself open and exhibits rare courage. For a
man like me, someone who walked away from the church long ago in an
effort to preserve my faith, he has provided water with these
words. This is a baptismal pool.”—Jason Reynolds, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of All American Boys, Long Way Down, and
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
“Standing in a centuries old tradition of spiritual autobiography,
Shoutin’ in the Fire is at once a coming of age story and a
conversion narrative. From Pentecostal origins, he travels through
institutions that hold onto an idea of ‘white Jesus,’ and
finally to a spiritual reckoning in which he recognizes Black life
to be not only valuable but holy. . .I highly recommend this
book.”—Imani Perry, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American
Studies at Princeton University and author of Breathe: A Letter to
My Sons
“A magnificent offering.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An
American Memoir
“Danté Stewart's voice rising is one of the reasons I believe in
our common future. It is an honor to be invited into the intimacy,
honesty, and inborn wisdom that he offers up in his experiences and
insights, his prayers and his theology, his grief and his rage, his
exuberance and his love. This book is a kind of map in stories and
truths to how we might, as a people, become more whole.”—Krista
Tippett, host of On Being and author of Becoming Wise
“At once personal and prophetic. . . Stewart’s words ache and groan
through the page, both a beloved ode to Blackness and an injunction
against the evil that refuses to recognize our sacredness.”—Rev.
Dr. Jacqui Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church and
author of Fierce Love
“God bless Danté Stewart for telling the truth. By confessing how
he was himself captivated by the lies of ‘Americanity,’ he
highlights the gift of the Black Pentecostal tradition that we
share and points powerfully toward the beloved community that
welcomes all. Shoutin’ In the Fire is a revelation. Receive
it.”—Bishop William J. Barber, II, author of The Third
Reconstruction and We Are Called To Be A Movement
“An emotional meditation on race, religion, and nation. In Danté
Stewart's boldly revealing stories of love, pain and renewal, we
find our own.”—Jemar Tisby, founder of The Witness, Inc. and New
York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to
Fight Racism
“Shoutin’' In the Fire is Stewart’s debut as both a great spiritual
writer and an interpreter of America's greatest source of practical
wisdom—the Black-led freedom movement.”—Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove,
author of Revolution of Values
“A magnificent debut. . . If you read one book this year, make it
this one.”—Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times bestselling author
of Jesus and John Wayne
“Extraordinary. . . A moving wakeup call to us all.”—Katherine
Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers
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