Recommended reading

Books to Encourage Deep Reflection & Inspire Courageous Action

PRAYER PROMPTS

Time: Our Leadership Team will be praying together WEEKLY on MONDAYS between 12:00-12:30PM.

Purpose: To join together in Spirit wherever you are as we pray at the same time praising, petitioning, and thanking the Lord as He uses us to pursue racial justice and reconciliation in His Church. This is a template for prayer to serve as a prompt and guide. However, you are encouraged to pray as the Spirit leads using your words so that it comes from your heart to the Lord’s ears.

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books

Be The Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation, the Kingdom, and Justice

By Latasha Morrison

The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best

By Irwin L. Ince

Becoming a Just Church: Cultivating Communities of God’s Shalom

By Adam L. Gustine

Between the World and Me

By Ta-Neshi Coates

The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By Jemar Tisby

Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community

By Michelle T. Sanchez

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

By Michael O. Emerson

The End of White Christian America

By Robert Jones

Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call For Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church

By Doug Serven

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By Robert Jones

How To Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and The Journey Toward Racial Justice

By Jemar Tisby

Just Mercy

By Bryan Stevenson

The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity

By Soong-Chan Rah

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By Paulo Freire

How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What The Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation

By Derwin L. Gray

Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Rediscipling The White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity

By David W. Swanson

The Religion Of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

By Michael O. Emerson & Glenn E Bracey II

Reparations: A Christian Call For Repentance And Repair

By Duke L. Kwon & Gregory Thompson

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

By Jason Reynolds & Ibram X

Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Drew G.I. Hart

Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

By Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By Emma Dabiri

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By Robin Diangelo

Who Will Be a Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance

By Drew G.I. Hart

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