This is why I don't check out religious books from the library

I can't underline in them, so I have no quotes to put here for you (nor quotes for me to look back on in their context). But I will say that I highly recommend "The Spirituals & the Blues," by James H. Cone, which is a look at black faith in America. I haven't gotten to the blues part yet, but what I've read so far of the part on spirituals shows this white girl a bit of what is missing in white Christianity. I've always said I felt that black women are on a different spiritual plane than white women, and this is another delineation of why that might be (the other I'm thinking of being "Prophetic Lament," by Soong-Chan Rah - seriously, read that book). "The Spirituals & the Blues" is a short book, but has good stuff in it.