Book Review: “The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance” by Jemar Tisby

“The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance” by Jemar Tisbyc.2024, Zondervan Reflective $29.99 262 pages You have all the tools you need. You have a level, so you’re always even-keeled. A hammer, to nail down your ideals. A saw to cut through nonsense and pliers to pull out the truth. You have almost everything you need for equality; now you need The Spirit of Justice by Jemar Tisby for the right blueprint. In early December of 2017, Myrlie Evers-Williams “granted a private audience” with a group of journalists on the day that the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened. Jemar Tisby was in that group, and Evans-Williams’ remarks stunned him. She said that “the spirit of justice raises up like a war horse… that stands with its back sunk in” until it “hears that… ‘bell of freedom.’ And all of a sudden, it becomes straight and the back becomes stiff. And you become determined all over again.” This made Tisby think of all the people who have seen “the worst of humanity” and still kept going. He wondered how they did it. There were, for instance, Black sailors on Columbus’s earliest voyages and West Africans in at...