In addition to their individual selections, listed below, all the pastors have read or are reading the following books on Race and Religion this summer.

• How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing and US Social Transformation by Fania Davis
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
• The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today by Charles Marsh
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race by Robin DiAngelo

Tim Ward

• Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
• Be Bold: Finding your Fierce by Rachel Billups

Tom Berlin (click here to find out why Tom enjoyed these book selections)

• Eternity Is Now in Session: A Radical Rediscovery of What Jesus Really Taught about Salvation, Eternity, and Getting to the Good Place by John Ortberg (Book on the Christian Life)
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman (Fiction)
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (History)
• Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton (History)
• House of Light by Mary Oliver (Poetry)

• The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

Barbara Miner

• Guerrillas of Grace by Ted Loder
• Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
• A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything by James Martin, SJ

Jake McGlothin

• Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
• Barking at the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle
• The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Bob Riggles

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli