Non-Fiction
Collateral Damage – James E. Atwood
On the day that I read this book, a man in a gas mask got on the northbound N train in Brooklyn and fired a gun 33 times, injuring 29 people. That was April 12. […]
Genre: Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Young, Gifted, and Black – Sheila Wise Rowe
“You are young, gifted and black” / We must begin to tell our young / There’s a world waiting for you / Yours is the quest that’s just begun. Nina Simone’s Civil Rights anthem To […]
Non-Fiction
Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings: A Mother’s Search for Grace – Shari Zook
Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings is a unique, artistic, soulful, and poignant look at parenthood (motherhood, specifically) that offers readers permission to be real about their own needs, shortcomings, struggles, and doubts. Mostly memoir, somewhat […]
Non-Fiction
Recovering Racists – Idelette McVicker
Recovering Racists positions every person who is called White as a beneficiary of racism. And already the arguments begin—“Racism exists, but I’m not racist.” “It’s racist to say that all white people are racist.” “I […]
Academic
The Destruction of the Canaanites – Charlie Trimm
In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins refers to the Old Testament God as a “vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, philicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” In other words, […]
Non-Fiction
The Great Quest – Os Guinness
Only Os Guinness could write a book on discovering meaning in life and fully and comprehensively cover the topic in 120 pages. The Great Quest is an invitation to living an examined life. Dr. Guinness […]
Non-Fiction
Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism – George Yancey
In this unique, well-argued book, sociologist George Yancey pushes back against the excesses and inherent flaws in colorblindness and antiracism mindsets, arguing that we need to be able to engage in “collaborative conversations” to move […]
Non-Fiction
Kingdom Race Theology – Tony Evans
Kingdom Race Theology: God’s Answer to Our Racial Crisis is an adapted version of Tony Evans’ larger work, Oneness Embraced. Specifically, the four chapters of this book come from chapters 10, 12, 15, and 16 […]
Non-Fiction
Joni: An Unforgettable Story – Joni Eareckson Tada
It’s been 45 years since Joni Eareckson Tada’s eponymous memoir, Joni: An Unforgettable Story, was first published by Zondervan in 1976, just seven years after the injury that left her paralyzed from the neck down. […]
Non-Fiction
How to Heal Our Racial Divide – Derwin Gray
Growing up, I thought that racism was a thing of the past. Like, I understood it was recent past. My (white) mom talked about how a Black family she babysat for in the late 70s […]