Racial Reconciliation & Social Justice

Different Together: Bridges of Mutual Respect is a book of positive and inspiring stories about interactions and relationships between people of diverse cultural backgrounds and faiths. These heartwarming accounts can help...

MAY 2024 SELECTION On a sweltering day in August 1960, in the segregated Deep South city of Jacksonville, Florida, a seventeen-year-old Black boy finished his dishwashing job at Morrison's Cafeteria,...

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...

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...

Recommended in November 2023 by Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves at Diocesan Convention for the Diocese of Florida. Created by Pádraig Ó Tuama five years ago, the Spirituality of Conflict website is...

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...

PAST INTERLUDE READING TEXT FOR EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) All are made in the image and likeness of God. If this is what we believe, then trans people, like all...

With any new human endeavor, errors and failures are inevitable. In With the Best of Intentions more than three dozen scholars and practitioners of many faiths explore cases of missteps and outright...

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...

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...

VOLUME D 2024/2025 INTERLUDE TITLE EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM) A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of Native American tradition.This book focuses on four specific...

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...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a...

A 50th anniversary revised edition of the beloved classic, God is Red. First published in 1973, Vine Deloria, Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native American religious views,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies"A true spiritual balm...

A groundbreaking study of the theology of beloved community from leading clergy, scholars and thought leaders. A major study on the theology of Beloved Community. This long-awaited work by the...

Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church. During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased...

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon...

Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the...

In this original and inspiring new commentary Father John Dear walks us through every line of the three synoptic Gospels, pointing out Jesus' practice and teachings of nonviolence each step...

This beautiful collection of prayers will take you on a journey into the spiritual walk of women of color around the world.

"Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American...

The memoir of a Catholic nun's spiritual journey that explores the deep connections between faith and the natural world Growing up in the Midwest, Judy Grathwohl never felt she belonged....

Winner of a 2020 Illumination Book AwardIn a world riven by poverty, prejudice, and power struggles, the faith and courage of activist Nelson Mandela remains a beacon of hope. South...

BiblePublishers Weekly starred reviewAcademy of Parish Clergy Reference Book of the YearIVP Readers' Choice Award A New Testament in English by Native North Americans for Native North Americans and All...

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the...

An unflinching look at the failure to achieve an equitable society with faith-based approaches to a meaningful racial reconciliation. While the dream of post-racial America remains unfulfilled and the current...

"This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history." — The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry Sometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us...

For the fifteenth anniversary of its publication, this revised edition features a new introduction from the author on the state of the church and its "radical welcome" today, along with...

Anti-black racism is a central ethical crisis of our time. In this volume, leading experts explore how Christian ideas, practices, and institutions can contribute to today's struggle for racial justice...

A clarion call and evidence-based reparations plan for churches engaged in dismantling racism. Christian churches, schools, and organizations committed to a reparations plan can learn how to do it--including how...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves....

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...

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...

Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond's famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church, attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a...

Austen Hartke's groundbreaking, best-selling book is now updated and expanded with new insights and terminology, plus new materials for study groups, preaching, and pastoral care.   In 2014, Time magazine announced that...

Never Forget Who You Are is a cross-generational conversation between a baby boomer and a Generation Xer that wrestles with what it means to be Black in America. In an...

Unless WE Tell It . . . It Never Gets Told! focuses on the Black history and the Civil Rights History of Jacksonville, Florida, and examines racism in Jacksonville, Florida,...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A must-read, cannot-put-down history." -- Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge...

Act Justly is the final book in the trilogy begun by Walk Humbly and Love Mercy, together forming an introduction to Christian faith and life. Taking their inspiration from a...