History | church history
Black Fire
One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism
Estrelda Y. Alexander | IVP Academic | 2011
The Land is not Empty
Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
Sarah Augustine | Herald Press | 2021
Unsettling Truths
The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah | InterVarsity Press | 2019
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A History of the Black Baptist Church
I Don't Feel No Ways Tired
Wayne E. Croft Sr. | Judson Press | 2020
Stamped with the Image of God
African Americans as God’s Image in Black
ed. Cyprian Davis and Jamie Phelps | Orbis Books | 2004
Jesus and John Wayne
How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez | Liveright | 2021
Free at Last?
The Gospel in the African American Experience
Carl F. Ellis Jr. | InterVarsity Press | 2020
Divided by Faith
Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America 2nd Edition
Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith | Oxford University Press | 2025
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A Survey of the Black Church in America
Exploring Its History, Ministry, and Unique Strengths
Tony Evans | Moody Publishers | 2024
The Gospel and My Black Skin
Confronting the Past, Reclaiming the Future
JP Foster | Zondervan | 2026
Birmingham Revolution
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church
Edward Gilbreath | InterVarsity Press | 2013
Reconciliation Blues
A Black Evangelical’s Inside View of White Christianity
Edward Gilbreath | InterVarsity Press | 2008
Undoing Manifest Destiny
Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice
L. Daniel Hawk | IVP Academic | 2026
Bearing Witness
What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists
Daniel Lee Hill | Baker Academic | 2025
All Oppression Shall Cease
A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church
Christopher J. Kellerman, SJ | Orbis Books | 2022
When God Became White
Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity
Grace Ji-Sun Kim | InterVarsity Press | 2024
All God’s Children
How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity
Terence Lester | InterVarsity Press | 2023
A Short History of Christian Zionism
From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century
Donald M. Lewis | IVP Academic | 2021
The Protestant Church and the Negro
A Pattern of Segregation
Frank S. Loescher | Greenwood Publishing Group | 1948
Nonviolence in America
A Documentary History 3rd Edition
ed. Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd | Orbis Books | 2018
God’s Long Summer
Stories of Faith and Civil Rights
Charles Marsh | Princeton University Press | 2024
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church
Bryan N. Massingale | Orbis Books | 2010
Ownership
The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield
Sean McGever | InterVarsity Press | 2024
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind
Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas C. Oden | IVP Academic | 2010
The Coming Race Wars
A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter Expanded Edition
William Pannell | InterVarsity Press | 2021
The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Anthony B. Pinn | Orbis Books | 2002
Return to Justice
Six Movements That Reignited Our Contemporary Evangelical Conscience
Soong-Chan Rah and Gary VanderPol | Brazos Press | 2016
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Brown Church
Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
Robert Chao Romero | IVP Academic | 2020
The Ballot and the Bible
How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
Kaitlyn Schiess | Brazos Press | 2023
For Justice and Enduring Peace
One Hundred Years of Social Witness
Jessica Mitchell Smith | Abingdon Press | 2023
Swing Low, volume 1
A History of Black Christianity in the United States
Walter R. Strickland II | IVP Academic | 2024
Swing Low, volume 2
An Anthology of Black Christianity in the United States
gen. ed. Walter R. Strickland II | IVP Academic | 2024
From Nonresistance to Justice
The Transformation of the Mennonite Church Peace Rhetoric 1908-2008
Ervin R. Stutzman | Herald Press | 2011
The Color of Compromise
The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby | Zondervan | 2020
Let Justice Be Done
Writings from American Abolitionists 1688-1865
ed. Kerry Walters | Orbis Books | 2020
Black Religion and Black Radicalism
An Interpretation of the Religious History of Afro-American People
Gayraud S. Wilmore | Orbis Books | 1988
Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice
What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn
Robert Wunthnow | Princeton University Press | 2023
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