The title of Esau McCaulley鈥檚 book may be off-putting for some. The concept of 鈥淩eading While Black鈥 may seem like a reader-response approach to hermeneutics. It鈥檚 not.
In a well-known sermon from 1987, Dr. E. V. Hill preached his wife鈥檚 funeral. Interspersed with remembering Jane Edna鈥檚 life and grieving her loss, Dr. Hill intones Job 1:21, 鈥淭he Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.鈥