Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
10 best books like Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Kelly Brown Douglas): How to Be an Antiracist, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It), The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jesus and the Disinherited, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, The Cross and the Lynching Tree, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, Dream Work, Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0062406582 |
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
| Author | Robert D. Lupton |
| ISBN | 0062076205 |
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
| Author | Jemar Tisby |
| ISBN | 0310597269 |
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...
Jesus and the Disinherited
| Author | Howard Thurman |
| ISBN | 0807010294 |
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900–81) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a solution...
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
| Author | Sonya Renee Taylor |
| ISBN | 1626569762 |
A global movement guided by love
Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.
The Body Is Not an Apology offers...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
| Author | James H. Cone |
| ISBN | 1570759375 |
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...
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
| Author | Kevin M. Kruse |
| ISBN | 0465049494 |
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0871130696 |
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won for her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness-so steadfast and radiant...
Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
| Author | Rachel Held Evans |
| ISBN | 0718022122 |
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,...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
| Author | Austin Channing Brown |
| ISBN | 1524760854 |
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...
| Author | Delores S. Williams |
| ISBN | 1570750262 |
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar -- mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God -- a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile,...
| Author | R.I. Moore |
| ISBN | 0631171452 |
The 10th to the 13th centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition, expropriation and mass murder of Jews, the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate measures to segregate lepers from the healthy. These have...
The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
| Author | Ann Voskamp |
| ISBN | 0310318580 |
*New York Times Bestseller*
Not one thing in your life is more important than figuring out how to live in the face of unspoken pain.
New York Times bestselling author of One Thousand Gifts Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What...
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
| Author | David Bentley Hart |
| ISBN | 0300246226 |
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities.
In this momentous...
4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work--Anywhere!
I'm trying to read more, therefore I've been listening to more audiobooks so that I can multi-task. This one is just a little over 2 hours long, but 25 minutes in I found that no ideas of substance had been developed. I found it comical that the 'Praise for....' section with quotes from other authors was...
Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise
| Author | Eboo Patel |
| ISBN | 0691182728 |
A timely defense of religious diversity and its centrality to American identity
America is the most religiously devout country in the Western world and the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today's volatile climate of religious conflict, prejudice, and distrust, how do...
| Author | Pierre Rosanvallon |
| ISBN | 0674724593 |
Since the 1980s, society's wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon--the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social...
The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
| Author | Jeffrey L. Rubenstein |
| ISBN | 0801882656 |
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter...
Liberating Sexuality: Justice Between the Sheets
| Author | Miguel A. de la Torre |
| ISBN | 0827221797 |
For two thousand years, Christianity has been wrong about sex. To this day Christians grapple with defining gender, sexism, heterosexism, and what constitutes healthy sex. Miguel A. De La Torre-noted ethicist and scholar on the intersection of religion with race, class, gender, and sexuality-shines...
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
| Author | James Q. Whitman |
| ISBN | 0691172420 |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman...
Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
| Author | Piotr H. Kosicki |
| ISBN | 0300225512 |
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life—not with guns, but French philosophy
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including...
Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy
| Author | Luke Bretherton |
| ISBN | 0802876404 |
In Christ and the Common Life Luke Bretherton provides an introduction to historical and contemporary theological reflection on politics and opens up a compelling vision for a Christian commitment to democracy.
In dialogue with Scripture and various traditions, Bretherton examines...
Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide
| Author | Eugene B. Borowitz |
| ISBN | 0874415810 |
I was originally assigned to read this book as part of an "Introduction to Judaism" class that I took to begin the process of converting. While it was one of the more difficult books we read for class, (Borowitz doesn't exactly write for the common reader) it was also one of my favorites. Borowitz's text...
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
| Author | Paul Harvey |
| ISBN | 0807835722 |
How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In "The Color of Christ," Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web...
They Call Me Momma Katherine: How One Woman’s Brokenness Became Hope for Uganda’s Children
Do you ever sell yourself short? That’s what Katherine Hines did before she realized she was selling God short. After years of tragedies, Katherine learned that God could do more in her life than she ever imagined if she trusted Him and believed. She discovered that He wants to change lives through...
In the Time of the Nations
In this major collection of essays, Emmanuel Levinas, a leading philosopher of the 20th century, considers Judaism's uncertain relationship to European culture since the Enlightenment, problems of distance and integration. The book includes five Talmudic readings from between 1981 and 1986,...
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
| Author | Nahum M. Glatzer |
| ISBN | 0872204286 |
This book contains probably my favorite Rosenzweig passage:
"What can be stated objectively is only the very general formula, ‘God exists.’ Experience, however, goes much further; in the same way that the empty announcement that two persons have married, or the showing of the marriage...
Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition
| Author | Irving Cutler |
| ISBN | 0809327023 |
Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago from the mudhole of the prairie to today’s world-class city. This completely revised fourth edition skillfully weaves together the geography, history, economy, and culture...
