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Here's your one stop shop for resources we offer from the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, via TheThoughtfulChristian.com . The majority are geared toward a more general Christian audience than just Presbyterians. Happy reading! Books The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart , by Mark Achtemeier UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality , by Colby Martin Mom, I’m Gay: Loving Your LGBTQ Child and Strengthening Your Faith , by Susan Cottrell Permission Granted: Take the Bible into Your Own Hands , Chapter 4, by Jennifer Grace Bird Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook , edited by Kimberly Bracken Long & David Maxwell From This Day Forward: Rethinking the Christian Wedding , by Kimberly Bracken Long What the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? , Chapter 9, by Martin Thielen A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends , Chapter 11, by David P. Gushee Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality , b...

You may read previous chapters here. Chapter 1: Disclaimers, Baby Steps, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory Chapter 2: For Church Study, Feminist Work, & Theology Chapter 3: News Sources & Organizations, Whiteness & White Supremacy Chapter 4: History & Poetry Culture, Etc. Between the World & Me , by Ta-Nehisi Coates Yellow: Race in America Between Black and White , by Frank Wu The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Updated & Expanded Edition , by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness , by Michelle Alexander Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race , by Beverly Daniel Tatum African American Religious Thought: An Anthology , by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Womanism Womanism gets its own category. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk , by Delo...

You may read previous chapters here. Chapter 1: Disclaimers, Baby Steps, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory Chapter 2: For Church Study, Feminist Work, & Theology Chapter 3: News Sources & Organizations, Whiteness & White Supremacy I love reading history. I love that history is not only definitive story, but also threads of narrative told from a variety of perspectives. Here's a brief selected bibliography. History A People’s History of the United States , by Howard Zinn A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity , With Voices, by Ronald Takaki Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong , by James W. Loewen Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong , by James W. Loewen An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Revisioning American History) , by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History 1513-2008 , by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Martin & Malcolm &...

You may read other chapters here. Chapter 1: Disclaimers, Baby Steps, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory here. Chapter 2: For Church Study, Feminist Work, & Theology Chapter 4: History & Poetry News Sources & Organizations I’m a big fan of exposing myself to information. Corporate news that we all have access to is incomplete at best (somewhat by necessity), so if you do want to know more, here are organizations, news sources, publications, podcasts, and radio shows you may want to follow on Twitter and Facebook, subscribe to, listen to, or support. Post your contributions in the comments! Because there are so many ways to interact with these listed below, I will not post links. Simply go to your preferred platform and search. Black Lives Matter Native Lives Matter 18 Million Rising National Council of Asian Pacific Americans NPR’s Code Switch (show and podcast) The Feminist Wire Colorlines Facing Race Muslim AntiRacism Fusion Latino Rebel...

You may read Chapter 1: Disclaimers, Baby Steps, Intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory here . Chapter 3: News Sources & Organizations, Whiteness & White Supremacy Chapter 4: History & Poetry I will take pity upon readers and open each chapter with the stuff that’s meant to be easy to read. But anyone (and I mean anyone) with access to a dictionary or a library can find a way into the other stuff here. I was reading college textbooks in high school and doing graduate-level statistical analyses as a junior in college. It sucked, but I learned a lot. That’s how I believe you can do some of this reading! If you have suggested resources I didn't include, please add them in the comments! For Church Study For Presbyterian Church Groups Confession of Belhar study Being Reformed Curriculum Series: The Confession of Belhar, Leader’s Guide Being Reformed Curriculum Series: The Confession of Belhar, Pa...