A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race
Meet Jesus and Sam. Evangelist and teacher Brenda Salter McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete.
Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions
In an age when church growth is centered in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, evangelicalism must adapt to changing demographics or risk becoming irrelevant.
American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
It all begins with an idea.
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history.
At Home in Exile
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka history.
Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World
What does it mean to be white? When you encounter people from other races or ethnicities, you may become suddenly aware that being white means something.
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ from the beginning to the present.
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
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.
Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church
From the footpaths of our cities to the chatrooms of the Internet, people are connecting today as never before.
Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion
When people deal with color, class or culture in a negative way, that's racism. But the answer is not to ignore these as if they don't matter.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system.
Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to Multicultural Worship Multicultural
Making Room at the Table is a collection of articles by members of the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary that explore the multicultural challenges facing the contemporary church.
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church
The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population.
More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel
Here is living proof that white and black Christians can live together. When Spencer Perkins was sixteen years old, he visited his bloodied and swollen father (pastor John Perkins) in jail.
My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
God help me. I stopped hating white people on purpose about a year ago.
No Future Without Forgiveness
The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event.
Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States.
Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines
Those people. Their issues. The day's news and the ways we treat each other, overtly or subliminally, prove we are not yet living in post-racial America. It s hard to talk about race in America without everyone very quickly becoming defensive and shutting down.