Sacred Ground

Please note: This title is a reading text for the Sacred Ground program and is a 2024-2025 Education for Ministry (EfM) interlude reading text. First published in 1949, "Jesus and...

This title is one of the Sacred Ground reading texts.   For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and...

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 James H. Cone...

2024 BACKSTORY AUTHOR CONVERSATION Catherine Meeks shares the wisdom she has garnered over the journey of her life, from her father's sharecropping fields to the academy and beyond. Today, Catherine...

From the winner of The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, a spiritual guide to restoring yourself from racial trauma and committing to the long work of dismantling racism. In her...

2023 Sunday afternoon Zoom class at St. John's Cathedral  Christian Book Award(R) programForeword INDIES Book of the Year FinalistOutreach Resources of the YearChristianity Today Book AwardThe Gospel Coalition Book AwardEmerging Public Intellectual Award Growing...

A personal story of the struggle for authentic inclusion in the church. From a strong voice in the dialogue about what Black lives matter means in relation to faith, a powerful lament...

"As poet, prophet, and priest, Thurman builds upon a powerful legacy of ancestral hope: belief in a liberating God who can always be found 'in and among the struggling.'"--Yolanda Pierce...

This final volume of his collected "sermon series," concerns what is likely the most cherished aspect of Thurman's thought, his emphasis on meditation, introspection, and self-discovery as the key to...

Speechifying collects the most important speeches of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole—noted Black feminist anthropologist, the first Black female president of Spelman College, former director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of...