Race & Faith Resources
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT
RACE & FAITH:
RESOURCES
Here is a suggested list of resources to read and/or watch:
Church History and Theology
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Michael Emerson and Christian Smith)
- Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)
- The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church At Its Best (Irwyn L. Ince Jr.)
- Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice (Eric Mason)
- All Are Welcome: Toward A Multi-Everything Church (Leon Brown, Irwyn Ince, Russ Whitfield, et al)
- The Next Evangelicalism (Soong-Chan Rah)
Books
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Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church (Doug Serven, Russ Whitfield, Irwyn Ince, Duke Kwon, et al)
- Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just (Tim Keller)
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Bryan Stevenson)
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson)
For Children
- God’s Very Good Idea (Trillia Newbell)
- God Made Me AND You: Celebrating God’s Design for Ethnic Diversity (Shai Linne)
Articles/Blogposts
- Letter From Birmingham Jail (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- PCA Position Paper on Racism & Racial Reconciliation (2018)
- Resources to Process Killings Like Ahmaud Arbery’s (Isaac Adams)
- “Is Black Lives Matter the new Civil Rights Movement” (Mika Edmondson – The Gospel Coalition)
- “Asian American Complicity in Racism” (Larry Lin – Reformed Margins)
- “An Asian American Guide to Dismantling Anti-Blackness” (Jane Kim – Asian American Christian Collaborative)
- “Reflections while Attending a Protest March for George Floyd” (Gene K. Joo – SOLA Network)
- “Reflections from a Christian scholar on Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, Marxism, and Biblical Ethics” (Kelly Hamren)
Media
- Just Mercy (Film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton)
- Eyes On the Prize (Documentary film by Blackside)
- Latino Americans (Documentary film)
- Asian Americans (Documentary film)
- Grace, Justice and Mercy: An Evening with Bryan Stevenson and Tim Keller
- Racism and Corporate Evil: A White Guy’s Perspective – Tim Keller