Social Justice and Christianity Good Reads
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation 4.27 avg rating — 36,215 ratings
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Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
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LaTasha Morrison
4.44 avg rating — 7,535 ratings 5. 
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
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Jim Wallis
4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 6. 
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
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Jemar Tisby
4.49 avg rating — 12,423 ratings 
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Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
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Mark Charles
4.36 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 9. 
Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White People Talk Faithfully about Racism 3.84 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
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Esau McCaulley
4.42 avg rating — 5,843 ratings 12. 
Preaching as Resistance: Voices of Hope, Justice, and Solidarity
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Phil Snider
4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings 13. 
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
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Robert P. Jones
4.42 avg rating — 2,560 ratings 
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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Gregory Boyle
4.49 avg rating — 28,923 ratings 
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
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Ronald J. Sider
4.06 avg rating — 2,884 ratings 17. 
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion 4.05 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods
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Sandhya Jha
4.39 avg rating — 71 ratings 21. 
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Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
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Ron Hall
4.20 avg rating — 91,991 ratings 23. 
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
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Sarah Bessey
3.90 avg rating — 12,277 ratings 
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We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
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Mary E. DeMuth
4.57 avg rating — 335 ratings 
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Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice
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Eric Mason
4.01 avg rating — 1,722 ratings 27. 
A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
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Brian Zahnd
4.38 avg rating — 1,603 ratings 30. 
Defrocked: How a Father's Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church 4.30 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Make Poverty Personal: Taking the Poor as Seriously as the Bible Does
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Ash Barker
3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings 
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Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity
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David W. Swanson
4.22 avg rating — 580 ratings 34. 
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us?
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Richard Stearns
4.13 avg rating — 14,038 ratings 35. 
Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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Helen Prejean
4.14 avg rating — 8,954 ratings 
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Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States 4.09 avg rating — 956 ratings
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The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era 4.11 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance
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Drew G. I. Hart
4.54 avg rating — 226 ratings 42. 
Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice: An Urgent Appeal to Fellow Christians in a Time of Social Crisis 4.35 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Decolonizing Evangelicalism: An 11:59 p.m. Conversation
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Randy Woodley
4.27 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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Chasing a shadow : Why Christians in America are a shrinking minority and what to do about it
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GREGORY ADAKA
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead To Lasting Connections Across Cultures
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Michelle Reyes
4.20 avg rating — 229 ratings 42. 
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
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John Piper
4.30 avg rating — 3,361 ratings 42. 
Faith Beyond Borders: Doing Justice in a Dangerous World
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Don Mosley
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 42. 
Helping others through faith?: Poetic structures to soothe the savage beast in you it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race–And Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us
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Benjamin Watson
4.38 avg rating — 1,774 ratings 
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Messianism Against Christology: Resistance Movements, Folk Arts, and Empire 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity
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Randy Woodley
4.36 avg rating — 295 ratings 55. 
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America 4.17 avg rating — 2,368 ratings
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When We Stand: The Power of Seeking Justice Together
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Terence Lester
4.64 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity
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Gerardo Martí
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings 55. 
Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time
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Catherine Meeks
3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings 64. 
Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood
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Patrick B. Reyes
4.31 avg rating — 205 ratings 
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Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor
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Robert D. Lupton
4.07 avg rating — 367 ratings 64. 
Church in Hard Places: How the Local Church Brings Life to the Poor and Needy (9Marks)
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Mez McConnell
4.28 avg rating — 477 ratings 64. 
The Drum Major Instinct: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theory of Political Service (The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights)
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Justin Rose
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 71. 
Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World 4.19 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country
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Tim Scott
4.24 avg rating — 793 ratings 
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Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City 4.43 avg rating — 2,839 ratings
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My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
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Amy Kenny
4.18 avg rating — 1,804 ratings 77. 
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
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lenny duncan
4.32 avg rating — 1,549 ratings 
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Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe 4.43 avg rating — 6,511 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,293 ratings 
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Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel
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Steve Addison
4.21 avg rating — 170 ratings 77. 
Howard Thurman: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)
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Howard Thurman
4.41 avg rating — 81 ratings 84. 
Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
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Leah D. Schade
3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings 84. 
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For
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Wayne Gordon
4.04 avg rating — 205 ratings 
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The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church
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Lucas Miles
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 163 ratings 
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
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Gary A. Haugen
4.31 avg rating — 1,527 ratings 88. 
Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
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Kevin M. Schultz
3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings 88. 
Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground
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Kipton E. Jensen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Violence 4.41 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church
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Patricia Miller
3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
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Steve Corbett
4.20 avg rating — 13,904 ratings 96. 
Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography (Library of Religious Biography
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Paul Harvey
4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings 99. 
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
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Daniel Hill
4.27 avg rating — 3,114 ratings 