Welcome to the Biblical Justice Resources book list. These resources cover a variety of topics at a number of levels. This list is intended to cover numerous viewpoints on multiple issues. While the goal is for this list to become extensive, it should not be considered exhaustive. This list will continue to be updated as more resources become available. To make a suggestion, email biblicaljusticeresources+suggestion@gmail.com.
Appearance of a resource on this list does not imply full endorsement of ideas. The goal is to provide a range of thought for consideration.
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Christian
Memoir/Narrative Nonfiction:
White Picket Fences: Turning Toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege - Amy Julia Becker
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship - Gregory Boyle
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Gregory Boyle
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice - Curtiss DeYoung
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South - Esau McCaulley
Tribe: Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us? - Sandra Mayes Unger
Theology:
Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship - Craig Blomberg
Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions - Craig Blomberg
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Black Theology of Liberation - James H. Cone
The Cross and the Lynching Tree - James H. Cone
God of the Oppressed - James H. Cone
Coming Together: The Bible’s Message in an Age of Diversity - Curtiss DeYoung
Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective - Justo González
Santa Biblia: The Bible through Hispanic Eyes - Justo González
Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just - Tim Keller
Latina Evangélicas: A Theological Survey from the Margins - Loida I. Martell-Otero, Zaida Maldonado Pérez, and Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Theologizing en Espanglish: Context, Community, and Ministry - Carmen Nanko-Fernandez
Missionary Theologian - Lesslie Newbigin
The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission - Lesslie Newbigin
Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way - Richard Twiss
Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation - Miroslav Volf
The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission - Christopher J. H. Wright
Biblical Studies
Reading the Bible from the Margins - Miguel A. De La Torre
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise of Hope - Esau McCaulley
Ethics
Biblical Ethics and Social Change - Stephen Charles Mott
Old Testament Ethics for the People of God - Christopher J. H. Wright
Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics - ed. Joel B. Green
Justice: Rights and Wrongs - Nicholas Wolterstorff
Political/Social Issues:
Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism - Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss DeYoung
Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible - M. Daniel Carroll R.
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart - Christina Cleveland
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for justice That Restores - Dominique Gilliard
The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center - David Gushee
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair - Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson
Still Evangelical? Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning - ed. Mark Labberton
Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America - Ronald J. Sider
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity - Ronald J. Sider
Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate - Matthew Sorens and Jenny Hwang
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World - Miroslav Volf
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It - Jim Wallis
The Great Awakening:Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America - Jim Wallis
Compassion (&) Conviction: The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement - Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler
Missions/Cross-Cultural Leadership
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself - Steve Corbett and Brian Finkert
Leading Cross-Culturally: Covenant Relationships for Effective Christian Leadership - Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching - Judith E. Lingenfelter and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
Cultural Intelligence: Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World - David Livermore
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence - David A. Livermore
Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic - Bryan Loritts
Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church - Soong-Chan Rah
Christian Living, Ministry, and the Church
Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods - Jonathan Brooks
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical - Shane Claiborne
Know. Own. Change.: Journeying Toward God’s Heart for Reconciliation - Josh Clemons and Hazen Stevens
A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation - Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, S. Steve Kang, and Gary A. Parrett
Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope - Curtiss Paul DeYoung
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race - Curtiss DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, and Karen Chai Kim
Let Justice Roll Down: A Worship Resource for Lent, Holy Week and Easter - Compiled by Geoffrey Duncan
Might from the Margins: The Gospel’s Power to Turn the Tables on Injustice - Dennis Edwards
Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing - Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
Strength to Love - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now - Brenda Salter McNeil
The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change - Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson
One Blood: A Parting Word to the Church on Race - John M. Perkins
Resurrecting Hope - John M. Perkins
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times - Soong-Chan Rah
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict - Ken Sande
Four Views on the Church’s Mission - ed. Jason S. Sexton and Stanley N. Gundry
Hope for Children In Poverty: Profiles and Possibilities - ed. Ronald J. Sider
Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity - David W. Swanson
Sermons on the Parables - Howard Thurman
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life - Howard Thurman
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism - Jemar Tisby
I Bring the Voices of my People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation - Chanequa Walker-Barnes
The Risk of Being Woke: Sermonic Reflections for Activists - Curtiss Paul DeYoung
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice - Jemar Tisby
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison
Color-Courageous Discipleship: Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community - Michelle T. Sanchez
Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege - Dominique Gilliard
Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How We Speak Up - Kathy Khang
Church History
Unsettling Truths: the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery - Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity - Robert Chao Romero
Community Development
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development - John M. Perkins
Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World - Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Hetzel
Linking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnerships Can Transform Communities - Ronald J. Sider, John M. Perkins, Wayne L. Gordon, F. Albert Tizon
The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action - Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Join the Resistance: Step into the Good Work of Kingdom Justice - Michelle Ferrigno Warren
Secular
Memoir/Narrative Nonfiction:
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Clayborne Carson
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
The Other Side of the River: A True Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma - Alex Kotlowitz
Holler if You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students - Gregory Michie
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
His Name Is George Floyd - Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America - Helen Thorpe
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence - Keith Ellison
History:
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 - Taylor Branch
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 - Taylor Branch
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown
To The Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 - Stewart Burns
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? - James H. Cone
Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South After the Civil Rights Movement - Steve Estes
The Lynchings in Duluth - Michael W. Fedo
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America - Juan González
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota - ed. Sun Yung Shin
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future - Robert P. Jones
Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State - Christopher P. Lehman
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Raymond Arsenault
Political/Social Issues:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
Toward an End to Hunger In America - Peter K. Eisinger
We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - Mariame Kaba
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Race to Incarcerate - Marc Mauer
A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the City - Katherine S. Newman
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community - Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart, and Mark Wedge
Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs - Doris Marie Provine
Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts - Kate Stith and Jose A. Cabranes
Race Matters - Cornel West
Philosophy:
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paolo Freire
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - bell hooks
Psychology
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem