By: Howard Thurman
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Howard Thurman writes about building community. He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but…
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By: Christena Cleveland
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Chr… read more
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"If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."-Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
"If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."-Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
By: Rebecca Solnit
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: James Baldwin
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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By: Marshall B. Rosenberg , Arun Gandhi
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of pers… read more
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"At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished."-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing an…"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
"All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message. The more we practice in this way, the more we realize a simple truth: …"-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
By: Anonymous
Format: 1213 pages, Hardcover
The New International Version is the world's most popular Bible in modern English and is renowned f… read more
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"Meaningless! Meaningless!"-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
"Thou shalt not stand idly by"-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
"A unjust law, is no law at all."-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
"Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a "-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
By: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more
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By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Format: 537 pages, Paperback
Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more
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"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"Failure is a greater teacher than success"-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
By: Ann Patchett
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more
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By: Roxane Gay
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Format: 191 pages,
"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more
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By: Steve Silberman
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more
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By: Parker J. Palmer
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more
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By: Imani Perry
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: C.S. Lewis
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
By: Claire Dederer
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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By: Sharon Brous
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more
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By: Shauna Niequist
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go … read more
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By: Kati Marton
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Gabor Maté
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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By: Ibram X. Kendi
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more
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"Racist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"I use “anticapitalist"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
By: Maggie Smith
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Robin DiAngelo
Format: 7 pages, Audiobook
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more
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"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By: Jeff Guinn
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more
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"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Austin Channing Brown
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more
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"I am not a priest for the white soul."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
By: Catherine Newman
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
By: Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Outreach Resource of the Year The Gospel Coalition Book Award The church is at its best when it pur… read more
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By: Howard Thurman
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Howard Thurman writes about building community. He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but… read more
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By: Rebecca Solnit
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men E… read more
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"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is fr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
By: Amanda Held Opelt
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In a raw and inspiring reflection on grief--selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books … read more
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"I think of the people I've lost. I loved them. I still love them. To say it was easy or that I was past it would be to diminish the love we shared. Because of my love for them, I will endure the long…"-Amanda Held Opelt, A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing
By: Chris Hamby
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, u… read more
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