9 Best race books like Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon

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Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

By: Duke L. Kwon

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public convers…

If you liked the race plot in Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Belief: a Theological Commentary on the Bible) by Willie James Jennings

1. Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Belief: a Theological Commentary on the Bible)

By: Willie James Jennings

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jenn… read more

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  • christian
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

2. The Cross and the Lynching Tree

By: James H. Cone

4.51

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

3. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

By: Eugene H. Peterson

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

This world is no friend to grace. God has given us some resources, however. As we grow in character… read more

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4. Jesus and the Disinherited

By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more

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Cover of A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing by Scot McKnight

5. A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing

By: Scot McKnight

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley

6. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

By: Esau McCaulley

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

Cover of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon

7. Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

By: Duke L. Kwon

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public convers… read more

Similar categories in Duke L. Kwon's Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair book and Duke L. Kwon's Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross by Brian Zahnd

8. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross

By: Brian Zahnd

4.53

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple by Scot McKnight

9. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

By: Scot McKnight

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore

10. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

11. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living by Alan  Noble

12. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta

13. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin

14. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.32

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives."

-Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

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15. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse by Chuck DeGroat

16. When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse

By: Chuck DeGroat

4.39

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Why does narcissism seem to thrive in our churches? We've seen the news stories and heard the rumor… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark  Charles

17. Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

By: Mark Charles

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centurie… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"We have embraced the stories of success and exceptionalism rather than engaging the narrative of suffering and oppression."

-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

"The fact that America calls what Columbus did 'discovery' reveals the implicit racial bias of the country - that Native Americans are not fully human."

-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

"The captivity to individualism in the West leads many to reject the possibility of institutions and systems inflicting social harm that requires a social response."

-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

"The myth of redemptive violence allows Americans to see themselves as having superior intellect and value and therefore the ability to handle weapons capable of incredible violence in an appropriate …"

-Mark Charles, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

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18. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"

-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Cover of Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle by Danté Stewart

19. Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle

By: Danté Stewart

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black worldIn Shoutin… read more

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  • christian
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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

20. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

By: Kaitlyn Schiess

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best by Irwyn L. Ince Jr.

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

By: Irwyn L. Ince Jr.

4.25

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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  • nonfiction

9 must-read history books like Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon

Transform Your Habits

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

Esau McCaulley

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

Duke L. Kwon

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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15 Best audiobook books like Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America by Russell D. Moore

Transform Your Habits

Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple

Scot McKnight

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

4.08

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