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40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child by Mathias and French
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A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures by Patty Lane
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The global village has arrived.
Recent census figures show that communities in the United States are more culturally and ethnically diverse than ever before. And you may be…
A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race by Brenda Salter Mcneil
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Evangelist and teacher Brenda Salter McNeil thinks evangelism that only introduces people to Jesus is incomplete. The picture is much larger than that, she claims: Christ’s death and…
A Mosaic of Believers by Gerardo Marti
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An in-depth look at a multiethnic congregation’s response to social change.
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A Theology as Big as the City by Raymond J. Bakke
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“As we look at the world-class cities around our planet, we face five new urban realities: a crack cocaine epidemic, assault weapons, massive numbers of homeless children, HIV/AIDS…
Agents of Transformation by Sherwood Lingenfelter
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A social system relates individual to group and sets up bias against the gospel. Anthropologist Lingenfelter helps cross-cultural ministers understand and transform culture, instead of Westernizing it.
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America in Black and White by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom
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In a book destined to become a classic, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom present important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement…
Bearing the Cross by David Garrow
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Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther…
Being Latino in Christ by Orlando Crespo
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Life as a Latino in America is complicated. Living between the two worlds of being Latino and American can generate great uncertainty. And the strange mixture of ethnic…
Being White by Harris and Schaupp
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What does it mean to be white?
When you encounter people from other races or ethnicities, you may become suddenly aware that being white means something. Those from…
Beyond Black and White by George Yancey
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Beyond Racial Gridlock by George Yancey
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Christians have struggled with racial issues for centuries, and often inadvertently contribute to the problem. Many proposed solutions have been helpful, but these only take us so far.…
Beyond Rhetoric by Hines and Deyoung
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The late Samuel Hines, who was African American, and Curtiss DeYoung, who is Caucasian, provide an inspiring, practical theology of reconciliation that will enable readers to take concrete…
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
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Black Man’s Religion By Usry and Keener
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Some say Christianity is white man’s religion. . . .
And it is true that there is a long and ugly history of abuse of African-Americans at the…
Breaking Down Barriers: A Black Evangelical Explains the Black Church by Dwight Perry
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Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church by Mark DeYmaz
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Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as…
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
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"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent…
Check All That Apply By Sundee Tucker Frazier
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Where do you fit?
Who is your community?
Who really understands you?
Being multiracial is often confusing, frustrating and lonely. Perhaps you feel as Sundee Tucker Frazier sometimes…
Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally by David Hesselgrave
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As an unparalleled introduction to missionary communication, this thoroughly indexed book examines world views, cognitive processes, linguistic forms, behavioral patterns, social structures, communication media, and motivational sources.
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Consuming Jesus by Paul Louis Metzger
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Many Americans think that race problems are a thing of the past because we no longer live under the Jim Crow laws that once sustained overt structures of…
Courageous Conversations About Race by Singleton and Linton
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Creating Understanding by Donald Smith
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Creating Understanding, a foundational book on which the enterprise of Christian ministry can be built, is a basic text and handbook for training and refining the skills of…
Cross-Cultural Conflict By Duane Elmer
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Whether at home or abroad, communicating with people of other cultures is difficult. It requires new ways of thinking and interpreting the world. When conflict arises, as it…
Cultural Intelligence by David Livermore
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As twenty-first-century society grows increasingly complex, pluralistic, and multicultural, it behooves Christians to communicate effectively between and among diverse populations. Research indicates that missions often fail because of…
Diverse Worship By Pedrito Maynard-Reid
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Let the nations sing.
What are the universal constants of Christian worship? What are the unique elements that arise out of diverse local contexts? How do we appropriately…
Divided By Faith by Emerson and Smith
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This book does an excellent job of describing the historical and sociological reasons why the Christian church has been “the most segregated major institution in America”.
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Dynamic Diversity by Bruce Milne
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From the footpaths of our cities to the chatrooms of the Internet, people are connecting today as never before. As the planet shrinks through the multiple forces of…
Embracing Diversity: Leadership in Multicultural Congregations By Charles R. Foster
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Explore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural…
Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
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Faiths in Conflict by Vinoth Ramachandra
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Crosscultural communication and interconnection have never been greater in the history of the world. Yet the potential for intercultural conflict accompanies every advance. And religious belief, which lies…
Free at Last? by Carl Ellis
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It has been more than thirty years since Martin Luther King Jr. shouted those words to a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. His speech, "I Have a Dream,"…
Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
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An exploration of how we can be transformed by the God who gives abundantly and who forgives unconditionally.
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We are at our human best when we give…
Free To Be Bound by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove was a product of the new South: color-blind and culturally sensitive. Yet despite his progressive worldview, he was unaware of the invisible borders separating neighborhood churches.…
From Every People and Nation by Hays and Carson
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"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language . . ." (Revelation…
God’s Global Mosaic by Paul-Gordon Chandler
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God’s people around the world form a mosaic. Each piece of the picture is different but contributes to a beautiful portrait of who God is and what he…
God’s Neighborhood By Scott Roley
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"Jesus relocated, and calls us to follow . . . his creation became his neighborhood."
Scott Roley was once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter in the contemporary Christian music scene,…
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion by David Anderson
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Best Cover Winner, 2007 ECPA Christian Book Awards (Midlevel Publisher)
“The parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor.” 1 Corinthians 12:23
When people…
Inclusion: Making Room for Grace by Eric Law
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"Inclusion is an excellent resource for church leaders and ministers seeking better understanding and processes to respond to the diversity of people they serve. Eric Law helps us…
Just Don’t Marry One by George and Sherelyn Yancey
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Interracial Christian couples challenge their families and churches to rethink previously held concepts about race relations in America. While God has joined together an increasing number of interracial…
Leading Cross-Culturally by Sherwood Lingenfelter
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As the US becomes more culturally diverse, cross-cultural ministry is no longer solely a concern for missionaries but also for nearly all pastors and church leaders. Of particular…
Letters Across the Divide by Anderson and Zuercher
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-Why is everything a racial issue with blacks?
-Why do so many whites refuse to believe that racism is a problem in America?
-Should all whites apologize for the wrongs committed against…
Living in Color by Randy Woodley
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"We would never give Picasso a paintbrush and only one color of paint, and expect a masterpiece," writes Randy Woodley. "We would not give Beethoven a single piano…
Making Room at the Table: An Invitation to Multicultural Worship by Blount and Tisdale
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Marginality - The Key to Multicultural Theology by Jung Young Lee
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"To transcend or to live in-beyond does not mean to be free of the two different worlds in which one exists but to live in both of them…
Ministering Cross-Culturally by Lingenfelter and Mayers
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“[This book] will help many missionaries on the foreign mission fields to navigate through the tensions they face as they try to adapt to a host culture. However,…
More Than Equals by Perkins and Rice
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Here is living proof that white and black Christians can live together.
When Spencer Perkins was sixteen years…
More Than Serving Tea By Khang, Heller de Leon, and Dean
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Asian American women are caught between different worlds. Many grew up sensing that daughters were not as valuable as sons. Family expectations and cultural stereotypes assume that Asian…
Multicultural Ministry by David Anderson
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A practical guide to multicultural ministry in a changing America, with motivating stories and examples from the author’s personal experiences in successful multicultural ministry. It also offers practical…
My First White Friend by Patricia Raybon
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"In mid-life Afro-American journalist Raybon made a conscious decision to stop hating white people. Her journal/analysis provides discourse on hatred and forgiveness, the rise of her hatred, and…
No Partiality By Douglas Sharp
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This book is about how we make sense of race and racism. Oh, I’m not using "make sense" to mean "make something understandable, reasonable, lucid or sane," and…
One Body, One Spirit by George A. Yancey
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When the church began, an amazing diversity of people from different geographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds gathered together to confess a common faith in Jesus Christ. The apostle…
One Church, Many Tribes by Richard Twiss
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In this captivating chronicle of the Native American story, Rosebud Lakota Sioux Richard Twiss sifts through myth and legend to reveal God’s strategy for the world’s First Peoples.…
One New People: Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church By Manuel Ortiz
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God created us with diverse cultural and individual backgrounds. He intended those differences for our corporate delight and blessing. But too often we let differences separate us from…
Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther…
People of the Dream by Michael Emerson
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This an excellent book on the ups and downs of building multiracial congregations. The book summarizes their findings of seven years of research by Dr. Emerson and his research team – including thousands of interviews and many…
Peppermint-Filled Piñatas by Eric Michael Bryant
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How can we move our churches to become relevant, responsive, and reflective of the global community? That’s the question that Eric Michael Bryant poses in Peppermint-Filled Pinatas. With…
Planting Churches Cross-Culturally by David Hesselgrave
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David J. Hesselgrave is retired as professor of mission and director of the School of World Mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a past president of…
Prejudice and the People of God by A. Charles Ware
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In a culture plagued by racial division and unrest, the church convinced itself that prejudice is not a pressing issue. But visit a local congregation on any given Sunday and…
Protest and Invest by Rodolpho Carrasco
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The seven articles in this volume stimulate Biblically based reflection on urban and multiethnic outreach. Use this book with your small group, church, ministry, mission team, or interns,…
Raising Up Young Heroes by Efrem Smith
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You already know that youth ministry is about much more than Sunday night Bible study and lock-ins. It’s about changing the lives of youth and empowering young heroes…
Reclaiming the Urban Family by Willie Richardson
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A how-to plan for evangelism and practical ministry to inner-city families based on the highly successful ministry of Christian Stronghold Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
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Hands-on answers to…
Reconciliation Blues by Edward Gilbreath
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Merit Award, 2007 Christianity Today Christianity and Culture Book
What is the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical churches today? Are we truly united?
In Reconciliation Blues journalist…
Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge, Our Only Hope by Curtiss Paul Deyoung
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DeYoung considers reconciliation in its broadest sense with periodic asides to illustrate practical approaches to separation based on race, gender, culture, class, nationalism, etc. The core of Reconciliation…
Subverting the Power of Prejudice by Sandra L. Barnes
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Prejudice. It’s a serious problem whether you’re on the giving or receiving end, no matter what kind it is–race, gender, age, status, wealth, looks or ability. It’s serious…
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
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This is one of my favorite books! A book on “Systematic Theology” may sound stuffy and a little boring – don’t be fooled by the title! In this hefty book (1290 pages) Dr. Grudem provides a well-written…
Take a Trip to Diverse City by Shawna Ray
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Shawna Ray is an author, communicator, singer, and songwriter who loves people. Her first children’s book, “TAKE A TRIP TO DIVERSE CITY,” was self-published through Winters Press and released January 2007. Shawna started her…
Teaching Cross-Culturally by Judith and Sherwood Lingenfelter
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"Required reading for seminary students, pastors and teachers, and any who teach. . . . This book challenges us to understand the culture that impacts how and what…
The American Church in Crisis by David Olson
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Groundbreaking analytical research from a database of over 200,000 North American churches reveals our population is growing faster than church attendance. This guide shows the problems as well as the…
The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
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Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that their common goal was not simply the end…
The Black Church in the African American Experience by Lincoln and Mamiya
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Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience,…
The Blessing of Africa By Keith Augustus Burton
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According to some estimates, Africa will soon have the highest concentration of Christians in the world. But African Christianity has had a long and conflicted history. Even today,…
The Bush Was Blazing but Not Consumed by Eric Law
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Best-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly inclusive community.
The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century by Francis A. Schaeffer
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"Does the church have a future in our generation? I believe the church is in real danger…. We are facing present pressures and a present and future manipulation…
The Global God by Aida and William Spencer
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"An eye-opening book. Its essays on American Christianity in global perspective will challenge, irritate, provoke, or encourage you."–Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame
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The Gospel in Black & White by Dennis Okholm
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After signal victories of the civil rights movement in the sixties, recent events have shown that the divide between black and white Americans remains alarmingly wide. And as…
The Heart of Racial Justice by Salter Mcneil and Richardson
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Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces. It hinders our effectiveness as one body of believers. It damages our ability to…
The Hip-Hop Church by Smith and Jackson
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Hip-hop is here.
The beats ring out in our cities. Hip-hop culture is all around us: in the clothes youth wear, in the music they listen to, in…
The Hispanic Challenge By Manuel Ortiz
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"The Sleeping Giant" is the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S.–the Hispanic community. Hispanics, especially Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans, are changing society and the church. As a…
The Ministry of Reconciliation by Robert Schreite
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How religions can play a significant role in reconciling peoples, communities, nations from South Africa to Bosnia, Korea to the Middle East.
The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory Boyd
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Arguing from Scripture and history, Dr. Boyd makes a compelling case that whenever the church gets too close to any political or national ideology, it is disastrous for the church…
The Ordeal Of Integration by Orlando Patterson
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The Urban Christian by Bakke and Hart
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An Eternity 1988 Book of the Year!
There are millions of opportunities for the gospel. With half of the world’s five billion people in cities, there is almost…
The Wolf Shall Dwell With the Lamb by Eric Law
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This groundbreaking work explores how certain cultures consciously and unconsciously dominate in multicultural situations and what can be done about it.
The Wounded Heart of God by Andrew S. Park
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Traditional doctrines of sin and salvation center primarily on the moral agency of the sinner. Andrew Sung Park addresses the relational consequence of sin–the pervasive reality of victims’…
Toward a Prophetic Youth Ministry by Fernando Arzola Jr.
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Youth ministries in an urban context are too often left to their own devices. The resources available to them are overwhelmingly conceived, tested and produced exclusively in the…
Transforming Culture by Sherwood Lingenfelter
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"Creatively and incisively written. It is highly recommended to those studying the relationship of Christianity and culture and to missionaries working cross-culturally. –Gailyn Van Rheenen, Restoration Quarterly
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Two Nations by Andrew Hacker
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Under God by Mac and Tait
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What does it mean to be a nation “Under God? Where have we been as a nation, and where are we going? Using unforgettable accounts of both…
Understanding Race and Ethnic Relations by Vincent N. Parrillo
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United by Faith by DeYoung, Emerson, Yancey, and Kim
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This excellent book was co-written…
Walking with the Wind by Lewis and D’Orso
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"The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the…
What Color Is Your God? by James and Lillian Breckenridge
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This concise text offers a dynamic look at multicultural America, showing ministers and others how to honor ethnic differences and avoid pitfalls when presenting the gospel. It illustrates that cultural…
What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
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Author Philip Yancey combines his talents with Brenda Quinn’s to produce a study guide for his Gold Medallion Award-winning and best-selling book, What’s So Amazing About Grace?.
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Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World by Stephen A. Rhodes
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Ride the subway or a bus in New York, London, Los Angeles, or any number of other cities around the country or around the world, and you will…
White Guilt by Shelby Steele
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Why the Rest Hates the West by Meic Pearse
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“Why do they hate us so much?”
Many in the U.S. are baffled at the hatred and anti-Western sentiment they see on the international news. Why are people…
With Justice for All by John Perkins
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John Perkins’s optimistic view of justice becoming a reality starts and ends with the Church. With Justice for All is Perkins’s invitation to live out the gospel in…