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.
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his first full sermon series was a six-week exposition of the book of Lamentations.
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing
Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough.
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion.
Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice
We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up.
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world.
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles.
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past.
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson)
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community.
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice
What's at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship.
The Future of Whiteness
White identity is in ferment.
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces.
The New Jim Crow
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment.
The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted
Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo?
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
In this riveting book, authors and authorities on modern slavery Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery that exists now in the United States.
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.