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Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart

10 best books like Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart (Christena Cleveland): Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe, Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, The Democratization of American Christianity, The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
AuthorRachel Held Evans
ISBN0718022319
 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible

If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
AuthorJemar Tisby
ISBN0310597269
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
AuthorJames H. Cone
ISBN1570759375
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America.

"They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN1524762091
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.

In his decades as a globally...
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
AuthorBrian Zahnd
ISBN1601429517
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love?
In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, - Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
AuthorRachel Held Evans
ISBN0718022122
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.


Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
AuthorSarah Bessey
ISBN1501155466
In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long—and sometimes miraculous—road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God.

Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AuthorAustin Channing Brown
ISBN1524760854
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...
The Democratization of American Christianity
AuthorNathan O. Hatch
ISBN0300050607
In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines...
The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
AuthorJusto L. González
ISBN0060633166
Another excellent survey of Christian history from the Reformation up to the early 21st century. As in his previous volume, Gonzalez is attentive to those voices who have been unrepresented in the Christian narrative, especially women and the Third World. Gonzalez paints a more positive picture...
Disruptive Witness
AuthorAlan Noble
We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits―and devices―that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor...
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
AuthorDaniel Hill
ISBN0830843930
Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you...
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
AuthorMichael O. Emerson
ISBN0195147073
Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination,...
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
AuthorSoong-Chan Rah
ISBN0830836942
Missio Alliance Essential Reading List of 2015
Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Social Criticism and Cultural Engagement

RELEVANT's Top 10 Books of 2015, Non-Fiction
Englewood Review of Books Best Books of 2015, Theology
When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church...
The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
AuthorSoong-Chan Rah
ISBN0830833609
2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winnerThe future is now. Philip Jenkins has chronicled how the next Christendom has shifted away from the Western church toward the global South and East. Likewise, changing demographics mean that North American society will accelerate its diversity in terms...
The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
AuthorKen Wytsma
ISBN0830844821
2017 Foreword INDIES Book Award Honorable Mention
Publishers Weekly's Five Best Religion Titles of 2017Is privilege real or imagined? It's clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation's consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension...
Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
AuthorDrew G.I. Hart
ISBN1513800000
What if racial reconciliation doesn't look like what you expected? The high-profile killings of young black men and women by white police officers, and the protests and violence that ensued, have convinced many white Christians to reexamine their intuitions when it comes to race and justice.
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Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
AuthorEric Mason
ISBN0802416985
“Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” –Frederick Douglass, 1845

The prophets of old were not easy to listen to because they did not flatter.  They did not cajole. They spoke hard words that often chafed...
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