Race and Justice Reading List
Nathan Sherman
We just wrapped up a three-week mini-sermon series thinking about race and justice. If you missed any of those sermons, you can catch up here. As promised, here is a list for additional reading if you would like to keep thinking about some of these issues. As Nathan mentioned, there is plenty more to recommend and plenty more that our pastors haven’t yet read, so this is by no means a comprehensive reading list. Nor is this a blanket endorsement for every jot and tittle that is written in these posts or books. As you read, apply the big picture principles that we thought through in the sermons and then chew and digest the nutritious meat while spitting out the unhelpful bones.
Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility (George Yancey)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Jemar Tisby)
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice (Thaddeus J. Williams)
What Is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission (Kevin DeYoung & Greg Gilbert)
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just (Tim Keller)
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (Esau McCauley)
The Bible and Race, First of 4-part blog series (Tim Keller)
Thinking Theologically about Racial Tensions (Ebook, Kevin DeYoung)
What the Bible Teaches about Ethnic Harmony (Andy Naselli)
Cautions Regarding CRT (Pat Sawyer) - Intro / Part 1 / Part 2
Critical Theory as Method, Metanarrative, and Mood (William Murrell)