Resources for reconciliation

Books: 

• Dr. John M. Perkins

  • “Let Justice Roll Down” 

  • Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win

  •  One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race

  • With Justice For All: A Strategy for Community Development

  • Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development

• Be the Bridge; Latasha Morrison

• Brown Faces, White Spaces; Latasha Morrison

• Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For. Dr. John Perkins and Wayne Gordon

• The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice, Jemar Tisby

• Rethinking Incarceration and Subverting Witness, Dominique Gilliard

• Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope, Easu McCaulley

• Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice, Pastor Eric Mason

• Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, Duke L Kwon and Gregory Thompson

• Unsettling Truths, Dr. Soong Chan Rah and Mark Charles write about The Doctrine of Discovery

• Building a Multiethnic Church: A Gospel Vision of Love, Grace, and Reconciliation in a Divided World, Dr. Erwin L Gray

• Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown

• The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best, Irwyn L. Ince Jr. and Timothy Keller

• The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein covers geography, race and discrimination

• Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen

• Blood at the Root, by Patrick Phillips: A history of Forsyth County, GA. A racial history that only was brought to light in the 1980’s

• Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology and Identity, Robert Chao Romero

• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America; Dr. Michael Emerson and Dr. Christian Smith

• Religion of Whiteness; Dr. Michael Emerson and Dr. Glen Bracey

• Free At Last? The Gospel in the African American Experience, Dr. Carl Ellis

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Dr. Beverly Tatum

• Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation, Pastor Mark Vroegop

• Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church, Dr. Soong Chan Rah

• Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubling Time, Dr. Soong Chan Rah

• White Awake and White Lies, Daniel Hill 

• One: Healing the Racial Divide, Pastor Dennis Rouse

• The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches, Dr. Korie Edwards

• Compassion and Conviction, Justin Giboney

Videos: 

• Knowing the Story, Josh Clemons

• Leveraging Power, Position, and Privilege, Josh Clemons 

• Where Do We Go From Here? Josh Clemons

• Understanding Our History, Dan Crain

• Race: The Power of An Illusion” (a 3-part PBS documentary)

• The African Americans: Many Rivers to cross

• Asian Americans (PBS)

• “Race: What Is It?” by Judy Wu Dominick

• 400 Summit, How the Sin of White Supremacy Shaped the Country and Church, Dr. Soong Chan Rah

• Doctrine of Discovery, Mark Charles

• The 13th: Documenting the criminalization of people of color

• Holy Post: Race in America, Phil Vischer

• Why do White Christians Vote Republican, and Black Christians Vote Democrat?, Phil Vischer

• History of race in America and the church at Urbana 1970, Pastor Tom Skinner

• White Privilege: A Pastor’s Perspective, Pastor Drew Henley

• White Cultural Identity, Dan Crain

• OneRace 400 Conference, Dr. Perkins

• Dividing Wall of Hostility from Ephesians 2, Pastor Crawford Loritts

• Ten Practical Tips on Changing the Story, Pastor Johnson Bowie

• Who is my neighbor? A documentary video of the March on Atlanta.

• Criminal Justice Reform, Pastor Raphael Warnockat the OneRace 400 Conference

• Biblical case for reparations, Pastor Leonce Crump

• New Humanity in Christ, Ephesians 2, Pastor Ethan Seifred

Articles/Blogs: 

• Race and the Church, Christianity Today

• Rethinking Multiethnic Churches, Christianity Today

• Enough Is Enough: Asian American Pastors on Speaking Truth, Christianity Today

• The Fire This Time: Reflections on a Year of Racial Reckoning, Christianity Today

• Imagine More: Recovering a Faithful Vision for Art, Creativity, and Justice, Christianity Today

• Pursuing Racial Justice: Christianity Today Writers on Identity, Faith, And the Future of the Church

• How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement

• Information on the legacy of the Slave Trade.

• Lynching in America, Equal Justice Initiative

• How Deep the Root of Racism?, Thabiti Anyabwile

• Unconscious Bias and the Effects on Women of Color, Lakisha Clemons

• Your Whiteness is Kicking In, Dan Crain

• Racism and Self-Deceit, Brooke Hempell

Websites: 

• 1619 Project: A history of the introduction of chattel based slavery

• The Repentance Project: A website dedicated to facing the darkness and pain of our nation’s past

• Asian American Christian Collaborative

• Robert Chao Romero: Engaging Students of Color and the Church in issues of race, social justice & Christianity.

• Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/

Critical Race Theory: 

• The Lies That Serve Us: Christians and Critical Race Theory: Justin Giboney. 

• One Race Crucial Conversation on Critical Race Theory with Pastor John C Richards and Pastor Drew Henley. 

• Pastor Rasool Berry on Critical [G]race Theory: The Promise & Perils of CRT. 

• Pastor Tim Keller on A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory. 

Podcasts

• Be the Bridge with Latasha Morrison

• And Campaign with Justin Giboney

• Pass the Mic with Jemar Tisby and Tyler Burns

• Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

• 1619 Project

• Race and Redemption: Brooke Hempell and Susan Robinson