28 must-read nonfiction books like If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by Angela N. Parker

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Similar categories in Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Sarah Bessey's Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Christian Wiman's My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• nonfiction

Similar categories in James H. Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"

-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Similar categories in Rachel Held Evans's Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

Similar categories in Justo L. González's The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

Similar categories in Vincent Harding's Jesus and the Disinherited book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction

"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Similar categories in Jasmine Mans's Black Girl, Call Home book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• nonfiction

"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Tim Miller's Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• nonfiction

" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"

-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Beth Allison Barr's The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction

"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Similar categories in Richard Rohr's The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Krispin Mayfield's Attached to God: A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• faith
• race
• nonfiction
• religion

"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Similar categories in Maria Smilios's The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• nonfiction

"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Similar categories in Peter Enns's How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Peter Enns's Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

Similar categories in Sarah Bessey's Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

Similar categories in Andrew L. Whitehead's American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction

"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

Similar categories in Christena Cleveland's God Is a Black Woman book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Schiess's The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"

-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

Similar categories in Wilda C. Gafney's Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Amy-Jill Levine's The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in John Pavlovitz's If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"The Good Book makes a really lousy hammer."

-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans

"A God our brains and buildings can fully hold just isn’t big enough to be truly God. The moment we imagine a rigid box adequately capable of containing the who, what, how, and why of everything that …"

-John Pavlovitz, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans

Similar categories in Jim Wallis's The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• theology
• christianity
• faith
• scripture
• church
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality
• anti racist

Similar categories in Cindy S Lee's Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• religion
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in LaTasha Morrison's Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronting Systemic Racism to Bring Healing and Restoration book and Angela N. Parker's If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

• race
• nonfiction
• anti racist