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 […]
Genre: Racial Reconciliation
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 […]
Non-Fiction
The Offensive Church – Bryan Loritts
A couple semesters ago, I took a class in creating multicultural unity in the church as part of my Doctor of Ministry studies. With all due respect to my professors and the materials used in […]
Non-Fiction
Beyond Welcome – Karen Gonzalez
I was first introduced to Karen Gonzalez with her 2019 book from Herald Press entitled The God Who Sees, a part-memoir, part-immigration policy reform, part-biblical reflection that began with the words “Will we live out […]
Non-Fiction
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion – David Anderson with David Heiliger
Another book on racial reconciliation? Well…sort of. Gracism: The Act of Inclusion was originally released in 2007 and a lot has happened since then. This revised and updated edition takes all of that into account […]
Non-Fiction
Resisting Apartheid America – Miguel A. De La Torre
Resisting Apartheid America is Miguel A. De La Torre’s third and final book in the Badass Gospel trilogy. Burying White Privilege talked about how racist hierarchy has been maintained in our systems of government, economics, […]