Non-Fiction
Beyond Ethnic Loneliness – Prasanta Verma
I grew up in a small, rural town in Indiana. I remember once my mom saying that she thought it was a small town without much racism when she was growing up: “We all loved […]
Genre: Racial Reconciliation
Non-Fiction
Troubling the Water – Ben McBride
“Good trouble” was the phase coined by the late civil rights activist John Lewis to describe the work of activism. It’s work that’ll get you into trouble with the principalities and powers of the age, […]
Non-Fiction
Rethinking the Police: An Officer’s Confession and the Pathway to Reform – Daniel Reinhardt
Daniel Reinhardt is a former police officer, and because of his vocational experience, he has an especially helpful perspective. A lot of people have big opinions about this topic without really understanding the issues at […]
Non-Fiction
How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church – Lamar Hardwick
How Ableism Fuels Racism explores how racism and disability justice issues intersect and intertwine, particularly within the American church. Lamar Hardwick writes from his perspective as an autistic Black pastor, and his recent battles with […]
Children's Books
Brown Girls Rules – Ashok Banker and Brittney Bond
Whenever I get new picture books for my kids, after reading them to make sure they’re okay for my kids to read, I put them in a stack on top of their bookshelf in the […]
Academic
Black Theology and Black Faith – Noel Leo Erskine
Why would Africa’s children turn to the God of their oppressors for liberation? In Black Theology and Black Faith, Dr. Noel Leo Erskine—professor of theology and ethics at Candler School of Theology—outlines the historic development […]
Academic
Churches, Cultures, and Leadership – Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez
Churches, Cultures, and Leadership was originally published in 2011 by InterVarsity Press and authors Mark Lau Branson and Juan F. Martinez. The authors are both professors at Fuller Theological Seminary and have experience in cross-cultural […]
Academic
Healing Conversations on Race – Veola Vasquez, Joshua Knabb, Charles Lee-Johnson, and Krystal Hays
There are a lot of books on racial justice, both from a Christian and secular perspective. For a time, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, the New York Times best-seller’s […]
Non-Fiction
In Church as it is in Heaven – Jamaal Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
What interested me the most with In Church as it is in Heaven was the subtitle: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture. I thought that phrase was interesting since, in my experience, many churches desire diversity, […]
Non-Fiction
All God’s Children – Terence Lester
Though the furor seems to have died down in the current cultural moment, there was a time just a few years ago when the removal and replacement (or even just contextualization) of statues honoring Confederate […]