Welcome to the Biblical Justice Resources book list. These resources cover a variety of topics at a number of levels. This list is intended to cover numerous viewpoints on multiple issues. While the goal is for this list to become extensive, it should not be considered exhaustive. This list will continue to be updated as more resources become available.
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Memoir | Biography | Narrative Nonfiction
Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength - Kat Armas
White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege - Amy Julia Becker
White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice - Drick Boyd
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship - Gregory Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Gregory Boyle
The Church and the Racial Divide: Reflections of an African American Catholic Bishop - Bishop Edward K. Braxton
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
My Soul Looks Back - James H. Cone
Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody - James H. Cone
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God - Kaitlin B. Curtice
Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice - Curtiss DeYoung
Christianity Rediscovered - Vincent J. Donovan
The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman’s Life and Work - Walter Earl Fluker
The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America’s Great Prophet Can Teach Us about Life, Love, and Identity - Greg Garrett
Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero - Vincent Harding
Once Upon a Time in Africa: Stories of Wisdom & Joy - Joseph G. Healey
African, Christian, Feminist: The Enduring Search for What Matters - Teresia Mbari Hinga
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope - Jasmine L. Holmes
Clarence Jordan: Essential Writings - Joyce Hollyday
The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope - Munther Isaac
Martin Luther King and the Trumpet of Conscience Today - Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice: A History of Christians in Action - Karen J. Johnson
Thirsting for Living Water: Finding Adventure and Purpose in God’s Redemption Story - Michael J. Mantel
Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity - Idelette McVicker
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South - Esau McCaulley
Cradling Abundance: One African Christian’s Story of Empowering Women and Fighting Systemic Poverty - Moniqur Misenga Ngoie Mukuna
Doing Nothing Is No Longer an Option: One Woman’s Journey into Everyday Action - Jenny Booth Potter
A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World - Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Young, Gifted, and Black: A Journey of Lament and Celebration - Sheila Wise Rowe
When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough: A Shooting Survivor’s Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence - Taylor S. Schumann
Daughters of Hope: Stories of Witness Courage in the Face of Persecution - Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
Forgotten Girls: Stories of Hope and Courage - Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child’s 3,000-Mile Journey - Gena Thomas
Women Riding: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice - Meghan Tschanz
Tribe: Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us? - Sandra Mayes Unger
Theology
Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship - Craig Blomberg
Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions - Craig Blomberg
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Evangelical Theologies of Liberation and Justice - ed. Mae Elise Cannon and Andrea Smith
Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence - ed. Laurie M. Cassidy and Alex Mikulich
Reclaiming Stolen Earth: An Africana Ecotheology - Jawanza Eric Clark
Black Theology and Black Power - James H. Cone
A Black Theology of Liberation - James H. Cone
The Cross and the Lynching Tree - James H. Cone
For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church - James H. Cone
God of the Oppressed - James H. Cone
Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology - James H. Cone
Black Theology: A Documentary History Volume One: 1966-1979 - ed. James H. Cone and Gayraud S. Wilmore
War, Peace, and Violence: Four Christian Views - ed. Paul Copan
Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience - M. Shawn Copeland
Coming Together: The Bible’s Message in an Age of Diversity - Curtiss DeYoung
The Black Christ - Kelly Brown Douglas
In Search of Christ in Latin America: From Colonial Image to Liberating Savior - Samuel Escobar
Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective - Justo González
Santa Biblia: The Bible through Hispanic Eyes - Justo González
Majority World Theology: Christian Doctrine in Global Context - ed. Geen L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo
A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation - Gustavo Gutiérrez
Facing Race: The Gospel in an Ignatian Key - Roger Haight
No Crystal Stair: Womanist Spirituality - Diana L. Hayes
From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race - J. Daniel Hays
Introducing Black Theology of Liberation - Dwight N. Hopkins
Shoes That Fit Our Feet: Sources for a Constructive Black Theology - Dwight N. Hopkins
Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just - Tim Keller
Doing Asian American Theology: A Contextual Framework for Faith and Practice - Daniel D. Lee
Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins - Loida I. Martell-Otero, Zaida Maldonado Pérez, and Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Introducing Womanist Theology - Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Theologizing en Espanglish: Context, Community, and Ministry - Carmen Nanko-Fernandez
Missionary Theologian - Lesslie Newbigin
The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission - Lesslie Newbigin
Down Deep in my Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preaching - Rev. Maurice J. Nutt
Theology Brewed in an African Pot - Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation & Transformation - Emilie M. Townes
A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives On Evil & Suffering - Emilie M. Townes
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way - Richard Twiss
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation - Miroslav Volf
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk - Delores S. Williams
The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission - Christopher J. H. Wright
Bible | Bible Studies | biblical studies
Bread for the Resistance: Forty Devotionals for Justice People - Donna Barber
A Just Passion: A Six-Week Lenten Journey - ed. Cindy Bunch
Migration: Experiencing God’s Care for Immigrants - A 6-Week Interactive Bible Study - Alexis Busetti and Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
Economic Parables: The Monetary Teachings of Jesus Christ - David Cowan
Reading the Bible from the Margins - Miguel A. De La Torre
Including the Stranger: Foreigners in the Former Prophets - David G. Firth
God of Justice: The IJM Institute Global Church Curriculum - Abraham George and Nikki A. Toyama-Szeto
Resurrecting Justice: Reading Romans for the Life of the World - Douglas Harink
Is Christianity the White Man’s Religion?: How the Bible Is Good News for People of Color - Antipas L. Harris
Loving Justice: Lifeguide Bible Studies - Bob Hunter and Carol Hunter
Let Peace Reign: Love, Justice, and Dignity in God’s Kingdom - A 6-Week Interactive Bible Study - Drew Edward Jackson
Romans Disarmed: Resisting Empire, Demanding Justice - Sylvia C. Keesmaat and Brian J. Walsh
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise of Hope - Esau McCaulley
The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary - Gen. Ed. Esau McCaulley
The Samaritan Woman’s Story: Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo - Caryn A. Reeder
Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics - Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Oh, Alice Yafeh-Deigh, and Kay Higuera Smith
Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul’s Message and Mission - Brad Vaughn
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Bible Translation of the New Testament - Terry M. Wildman
Reading the Bible on Turtle Island: An Invitation to North American Indigenous Interpretation - H. Daniel Zacharias and T. Christopher Hoklotubbe
Ethics
Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour - John Goldingay
Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics - ed. Joel B. Green
Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics - Vincent W. Lloyd and Andrew Prevot
Biblical Ethics and Social Change - Stephen Charles Mott
Up Against A Crooked Gospel: Black Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Redemption - Melanie Jones Quarles
Bulls, Bears and Golden Calves: Applying Christian Ethics in Economics - John E. Stapleford
Old Testament Ethics for the People of God - Christopher J. H. Wright
Justice: Rights and Wrongs - Nicholas Wolterstorff
political | social issues
You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us - Kent Annan
Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation - Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba
Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism - Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss DeYoung
Lay Me in God’s Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial - Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible - M. Daniel Carroll R.
Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy and Life Choices - Victor C. Claar and Robin J. Klay
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart - Christina Cleveland
Faithful Politics: Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters - Miranda Zapor Cruz
The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World - ed. Jenny Eaton Dyer and Cathleen Falsani
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God - Kelly Brown Douglas
The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church’s Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct - Ruth Everhart
No Place for Abuse: Biblical Practical Resources to Counteract Domestic Violence - Catherine Clark Froeger and Nancy Nason-Clark
The Cross and Gendercide: A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women and Girls - Elizabeth Gerhardt
Compassion (&) Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement - Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for justice That Restores - Dominique Gilliard
Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics - Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville
The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center - David Gushee
Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths - Melanie L. Harris
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
Power and Poverty: Divine and Human Rule in a World of Need - Dewi Hughes
Serving God in a Migrant Crisis: Ministry to People on the Move - Patrick Johnstone with Dean Merrill
Citizenship Without Illusions: A Christian Guide to Political Engagement - David T. Koyzis
Political Visions & Illusions: A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies - David T. Koyzis
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair - Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson
Still Evangelical? Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning - ed. Mark Labberton
From Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice - Terence Lester
Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action - Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
Christianity versus Fatalistic Religions in the War Against Poverty - Udo Middlemann
The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism - Paul D. Miller
Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis - Jonathan A. Moo and Robert S. White
Refuse to Do Nothing: Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-Day Slavery - Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim
Ending Human Trafficking: A Handbook of Strategies for the Church Today - Shayne Moore, Sandra Morgan, and Kimberly McOwen Yim
Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering - Ronald E. Osborn
The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth - Kristen Page
Rethinking the Police: An Officer’s Confession and the Pathway to Reform - Daniel Reinhardt
Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters - Sandra L. Richter
Economic Justice in a Flat World: Christian Perspectives on Globalization - ed. Steven Rundle
The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here - Kaitlyn Schiess
Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America - Ronald J. Sider
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity - Ronald J. Sider
Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate - Matthew Sorens and Jenny Hwang
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women - Elaine Storkey
Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice - David W. Swanson
Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters - Ed Uszynski
Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship - Fred H. Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon, and Raymond H. Brand
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World - Miroslav Volf
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It - Jim Wallis
The Great Awakening:Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America - Jim Wallis
American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church - Andrew L. Whitehead
Missions | cross-cultural leadership
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion - David A. Anderson
Overturning Tables: Freeing Missions from the Christian-Industrial Complex - Scott A. Bessenecker
Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive - Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
Spiritual Formation for the Global Church: A Multi-Denominational, Multi-Ethnic Approach - ed. Ryan A. Brandt and John Frederick
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself - Steve Corbett and Brian Finkert
Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development - B. Hunter Farrell
A Just Mission: Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality - Mekedes Haddis
Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socializaion to Answer God’s Call - Susan Harris Howell
The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best - Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
The Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts - ed. Roberta R. King and William A. Dyrness
I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People - Terence Lester
Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership - Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching - Judith E. Lingenfelter and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World - David Livermore
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence - David A. Livermore
Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic - Bryan Loritts
Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation - Jason Mandryk
Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church - Scot McKnight
Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice - Brenda Salter McNeil
The Colors of Culture: The Beauty of Diverse Friendships - MelindaJoy Mingo
Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission - J.D. Payne
The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities - Adrian Pei
More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel - Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice
Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission - James E. Plueddemann
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church - Soong-Chan Rah
To Give or Not to Give: Rethinking Dependency, Restoring Generosity, and Redefining Sustainability - John Rowell
Can “White” People Be Saved?: Triangulating Race, Theology, and Mission - ed. Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong
Pray for the World: A New Prayer Resource from Operation World - ed. Molly Wall
Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry - Harry Louis Williams II
The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative - Christopher J. H. Wright
Intercultural Theology, Volume One: Intercultural Hermeneutics - Henning Wrogemann
Intercultural Theology, Volume Two: Theologies of Mission - Henning Wrogemann
Intercultural Theology, Volume Three: A Theology of Interreligious Relations - Henning Wrogemann
Preaching | Sermons
The Risk of Being Woke: Sermonic Reflections for Activists - Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Democracy and the Soul of America (Walking with God: The Sermon Series of Howard Thurman, Volume 3) - ed. Peter Eisenstadt and Walter Earl Fluker
The Inner Life and Social Responsibility (Walking with God: The Sermon Series of Howard Thurman, Volume 4) - ed. Peter Eisenstadt and Walter Earl Fluker
Preaching Racial Justice - Rev. Gregory Heille, Rev. Maurice Nutt, and Deborah Wilhelm
Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. - ed. Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Sermons on the Parables - Howard Thurman
Worship
A Womanist Theology of Worship: Liturgy, Justice, and Communal Righteousness - Lisa Allen
The Spirituals and the Blues - James H. Cone
Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals - Arthur C. Jones
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice - Mark Labberton
Christian Living | ministry | the church
Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World - Kent Annan
Disaster Ministry Handbook - Jamie D. Aten and David M. Boan
Leveling the Praying Field: Can the Church We Love, Love Us Back? - Ansel Augustine
Embrace: God’s Radical Shalom for a Divided World - Leroy Barber
Subverting the Power of Prejudice: Resources for Individual and Social Change - Sandra L. Barnes
Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of a Non-Western Religion - Kwame Bediako
Front Porch Wisdom: Navigating Leadership Pressures and Barriers as a Woman of Color - Froswa’ Booker-Drew
Great Commission, Great Compassion: Following Jesus and Loving the World - Paul Borthwick
Resurrection Song: African-American Spirituality - Flora Wilson Bridges
Confronting Whiteness: A Spiritual Journey of Reflection, Conversation, and Transformation - W. Benjamin Boswell
Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age - Mae Elise Cannon
Just Spirituality: How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action - Mae Elise Cannon
Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World - Mae Elise Cannon
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - Shane Claiborne
Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals - Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices - Julie Clawson
Know. Own. Change.: Journeying Toward God’s Heart for Reconciliation - Josh Clemons and Hazen Stevens
A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation - Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, S. Steve Kang, and Gary A. Parrett
Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience - ed. M. Shawn Copeland
Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power - Andy Crouch
Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America - Keri Day
Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope - Curtiss Paul DeYoung
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race - Curtiss DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, and Karen Chai Kim
Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past - The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter - Kelly Brown Douglas
What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls - Kelly Brown Douglas
Let Justice Roll Down: A Worship Resource for Lent, Holy Week and Easter - Compiled by Geoffrey Duncan
Faithful Anti-Racism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change - Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan
Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character - Dennis R. Edwards
Might from the Margins: The Gospel’s Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice - Dennis R. Edwards
The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, & Religious Diversity in America - Jeannine Hill Fletcher
The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward - Malcolm Foley
If It Wasn’t for the Women - Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege - Dominique Gilliard
The Gospel of Peace in a Violent World: Christian Nonviolence for Communal Flourishing - ed. Shawn Graves and Marlena Graves
Becoming a Just Church: Cultivating Communities of God’s Shalom - Adam L. Gustine
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World - Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp
Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World - Gary A. Haugen
Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian - Gary Haugen
Forged in the Fiery Furnace: African American Spirituality - Diana L. Hayes
Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States - ed. Diana L. Hayes and Cyprian Davis
The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic - Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance - Bethany Hanke Hoang and Kristen Deede Johnson
A White Catholic’s Guide to Racism and Privilege - Daniel Horan
Mending the Divides: Creating Love in a Conflicted World - Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart
Handbook of African Catholicism - ed. Stan Chu Ilo
A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis - Stan Chu Ilo
What if Jesus was Serious About Justice? - Skye Jethani
Serving God in Today’s Cities: Facing the Challenges of Urbanization - Patrick Johnstone with Dean Merrill
Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven: Community Practices for Making Peace - L. Gregory Jones and Célestin Musekura
The Journey of Reconciliation - Groaning for a New Creation in Africa - Emmanuel Katongole
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing - Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church - Amy Kenny
Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How We Speak Up - Kathy Khang
Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World - Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill
Strength to Love - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Church for Everyone: Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations - Daniel Kreiss and Efrem Smith
Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets - Lindsey Krinks
The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus - Mark Labberton
Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation - David P. Leong
The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity - Bryan C. Loritts
Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement Toward Beloved Community - Charles Marsh and John M. Perkins
Christianity Corrupted: The Scandal of White Supremacy - Jermaine J. Marshall
Confronting Sexism in the Church: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It - Heather Matthews
Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now - Brenda Salter McNeil
A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race - Brenda Salter McNeil
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change - Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson
Unlearning White Supremacy: A Spirituality for Racial Liberation - Alex Mikulich
Making All Things New: God’s Dream for Global Justice - R. York Moore
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison
The Economics of Neighborly Love: Investing in Your Community’s Compassion and Capacity - Tom Nelson
Standing with the Vulnerable: A Curriculum for Transforming Lives and Communities - Gil Odendaal
Beads and Strands: Reflections of an African Woman on Christianity in Africa - Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Chosen Vessels: Women of Color, Keys to Change - Rebecca Florence Osaigbovo
One Blood: A Parting Word to the Church on Race - John M. Perkins
Resurrecting Hope - John M. Perkins
African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, and Impact - Robert J. Priest and Kirimi Barine
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times - Soong-Chan Rah
Just Discipleship: Biblical Justice in an Unjust World - Michael J. Rhodes
From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis - Chris Rice
Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women An Anthology - ed. Marcia Y. Riggs
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience - Sheila Wise Rowe
Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community - Michelle T. Sanchez
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict - Ken Sande
Uncommon Church: Community Transformation for the Common Good - Alvin Sanders
Four Views on the Church’s Mission - ed. Jason S. Sexton and Stanley N. Gundry
Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing Shalom in Every Corner of Society - Amy L. Sherman
Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey - Sarah Shin
Hope for Children In Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities - ed. Ronald J. Sider
Forever in Thy Path: The God of Black Liberation - Harry H. Singleton
Black Woman Grief: A Guide to Hope and Wholeness - Natasha Smith
How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick: Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities - Veronica Squires and Breanna Lathrop
Persevering Power - Encouragement for When You’re Oppressed by Life - Bruce D. Strom
Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change - Mark E. Strong
Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity - David W. Swanson
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life - Howard Thurman
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice - Jemar Tisby
Healing Conversations on Race: Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology - Veola Vazquez, Joshua Knabb, Charles Lee-Johnson, and Krystal Hays
Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging - Prasanta Verma
Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship - Paul J. Wadell
I Bring the Voices of my People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation - Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Twelve Lies That Hold America Captive: And the Truth That Sets Us Free - Jonathan P. Walton
Living Without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence - Samuel Wells and Marcia A. Owen
The World Is Not Ours to Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good - Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God’s Eyes - Amy L. Williams
In Church as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture - Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Living in Color: Embracing God’s Passion for Ethnic Diversity - Randy Woodley
A Just Forgiveness: Responsible Healing Without Excusing Injustice - Everett L. Worthington Jr.
The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege - Ken Wytsma
Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism - George A. Yancey
Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility - George Yancey
History | church history
Unsettling Truths: the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare - James H. Cone
Stamped with the Image of God: African Americans as God’s Image in Black - ed. Cyprian Davis and Jamie Phelps
Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African American Experience - Carl F. Ellis Jr.
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church - Edward Gilbreath
Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity - Edward Gilbreath
Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement - Vincent Harding
In the Shadow of Freedom: The Enduring Call for Racial Justice - Alessandra Harris
All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church - Christopher J. Kellerman, SJ
When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity - Grace Ji-Sun Kim
All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity - Terence Lester
A Short History of Christian Zionism: From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century - Donald M. Lewis
Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History - ed. Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church - Bryan N. Massingale
Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield - Sean McGever
The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter - William Pannell
The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Anthony B. Pinn
Return to Justice: Six Movements That Reignited Our Contemporary Evangelical Conscience - Soong-Chan Rah and Gary VanderPol
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity - Robert Chao Romero
Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church - Olga M. Segura
Swing Low, volume 1: A History of Black Christianity in the United States - Walter R. Strickland II
Swing Low, volume 2: An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States - gen. ed. Walter R. Strickland II
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby
Let Justice Be Done: Writings from American Abolitionists 1688-1865 - ed. Kerry Walters
Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People - Gayraud S. Wilmore
community development
Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods - Jonathan Brooks
Where the Cross Meets the Street: What Happens to the Neighborhood When God Is at the Center - Noel Castellanos
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development - John M. Perkins
Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World - Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Hetzel
Linking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnerships Can Transform Communities - Ronald J. Sider, John M. Perkins, Wayne L. Gordon, F. Albert Tizon
The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action - Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Join the Resistance: Step into the Good Work of Kingdom Justice - Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Children
Penny Preaches: God Gives Gifts to Everyone! - Amy Dixon and Rob Dixon
Kaylee Prays for the Children of the World: God Hears Every Prayer - Helen Lee
Zion Learns to See: Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness - Terence Lester and Zion Lester
Fiction
A Week in the Life of a Slave - John Byron