Educational Resources

Resources for enhancing awareness and understanding of racial history and terminology

SUGGESTED VIDEO RESOURCES

Dr. Tony Evans – What is Systematic Racism?

Dr. Tony Evans – Is there Racism in the Church today?

Pastor Levi Lusko – The Upper Hand

Pastor Robert Madu – Get Over It

Phil Vischer – Race in America (Part 1)

Phil Vischer – Race in America (Part 2)

Life of Privilege Explained in a $100 Race

SUGGESTED BOOK READINGS

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L. Chappell

Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism by George Yancey

Beyond Rhetoric: Reconciliation as a Way of Life by Samuel George Hines and Curtiss Paul DeYoung

Crossing the Tracks: Hope for the Hopeless and Help for the Poor in Rural Mississippi and Your Community by Dolphus Weary with Josh Dear and William Hendricks

Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For by Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins

God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights by Charles Marsh

How to Heal Our Racial Divide: Long Summer: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray

I Ain’t Comin’ Back! by Dolphus Weary and Williams Hendricks

My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (American Ways) by John A. Salmond

One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love by John Perkins

Oneness Embraced: Reconciliation, The Kingdom, and How We Are Stronger Together by Tony Evans

Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship by Peter Slade

Pieces From the Past: Voices of Heroic Women in Civil Rights by Joanne Prichard Morris, Joan Mulholland, Betty Pearson, Stanley Dearman, Constance Slaughter Harvey, John C. Brittain, Lawrence Guyot, Rose Freeman Massey, Charles McLaurin, Regena Lynn Thomas, Barbara Devine Russell, Monica Land and Others

Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism by Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung

Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge — Our Only Hope by Curtiss Paul DeYoung

The Church and the Racial Divide: Finding Unity in the Race – Transcending Gospel by Trevor Atwood

The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

ARTICLES

The Three Powers Of Racism

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