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Liturgies for Resisting Empire
Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World
Kat Armas | Brazos Press | 2025
Subverting the Power of Prejudice
Resources for Individual and Social Change
Sandra L. Barnes | IVP Academic | 2006
Honoring God in Red or Blue
Approaching Politics with Humility, Grace, and Reason
Amy E. Black | Moody Publishers | 2012
Dare We Speak of Hope?
Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics
Allan Aubrey Boesak | Eerdmans | 2014
Radical Reconciliation
Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism
Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung | Orbis Books | 2012
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Christ and the Common Life
Political Theology and the Case for Democracy
Luke Bretherton | Eerdmans | 2019
Political Trauma and Healing
Biblical Ethics for a Postcolonial World
Mark G. Brett | Eerdmans | 2016
Politics for a Pilgrim Church
A Thomistic Theory of Civic Virtue
Thomas J. Bushlack | Eerdmans | 2015
Beyond Hashtag Activism
Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
Mae Elise Cannon | InterVarsity Press | 2020
Just Spirituality
How Faith Practices Fuel Social Action
Mae Elise Cannon | InterVarsity Press | 2013
Migrations of the Holy
God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
William T. Cavanaugh | Eerdmans | 2011
Disunity in Christ
Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
Christena Cleveland | InterVarsity Press | 2013
Jesus, Jubilee, and the Politics of God’s Reign
Christian T. Collins Winn | Eerdmans | 2023
Faithful Politics
Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters
Miranda Zapor Cruz | IVP Academic | 2024
The Risk of Being Woke
Sermonic Reflections for Activists
Curtiss Paul DeYoung | Judson Press | 2023
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Jesus and John Wayne
How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez | Liveright | 2021
On Secular Governance
Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
Ronald W. Duty and Marie A. Failinger | Eerdmans | 2016
Democracy and the Soul of America
Walking with God: The Sermon Series of Howard Thurman, Volume 3
ed. Peter Eisenstadt and Walter Earl Fluker | Orbis Books | 2022
The Religion of Whiteness
How Racism Distorts Christian Faith
Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracy II | Oxford University Press | 2024
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Kingdom Racial Change
Overcoming Inequality, Injustice, and Indifference
Michael A. Evans, David L. McFadden, and Michael O. Emerson | Eerdmans | 2025
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How Should Christians Vote?
Tony Evans | Moody Publishers | 2012
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around
How the Black Church’s Public Witness Leads Us out of the Culture War
Justin Giboney | InterVarsity Press | 2025
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Compassion (&) Conviction
The AND Campaign’s Guide to Faithful Civic Engagement
Justin Giboney, Michael Wear, and Chris Butler | InterVarsity Press | 2020
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The Future of Faith in American Politics
The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center
David P. Gushee | Baylor University Press | 2008
Resident Aliens
A Provocative Christian Assessment of Culture and Ministry for People Who Know That Something is Wrong 25th Anniversary Edition
Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon | Abingdon Press | 2014
A Spirituality for Doing Justice
Reflections for Congregation-Based Organizers
Dennis A. Jacobsen | Fortress Press | 2021
Dancing in No Man’s Land
Moving with Peace and Truth in a Hostile World
Brian Jennings | NavPress | 2018
Racial Justice for the Long Haul
How White Christian Advocates Persevere (and Why)
Christine Jeske | IVP Academic | 2026
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White Too Long
The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Robert P. Jones | Simon & Schuster | 2021
Christ and Covenant in Global Politics
A Christian Introduction to International Relations
Robert J. Joustra | IVP Academic | 2026
The Good News of Church Politics
Ross Kane | Eerdmans | 2024
Citizenship Without Illusions
A Christian Guide to Political Engagement
David T. Koyzis | IVP Academic | 2024
Political Visions & Illusions
A Survey & Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies 2nd Edition
David T. Koyzis | IVP Academic | 2019
Still Evangelical?
Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning
ed. Mark Labberton | InterVarsity Press | 2018
Political Church
The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule
Jonathan Leeman | IVP Academic | 2016
Is God on America's Side?
The Surprising Answer and How it Affects Our Future
Erwin W. Lutzer | Moody Publishers | 2009
Pulpit & Politics
Separation of Church & State in the Black Church
Marvin A. McMickle | Judson Press | 2014
Faith-Rooted Organizing
Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World
Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel | InterVarsity Press | 2013
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
The Liturgy of Politics
Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
Kaitlyn Schiess | InterVarsity Press | 2020
Deconstructing Power and Isms Within the Church and Society
Christine A. Smith | Judson Press | 2025
With Liberty and Justice for Some
The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America
Susan K. Williams Smith | Judson Press | 2020
Why Politics Needs Religion
The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square
Brendan Sweetman | IVP Academic | 2006
Crossing the Lines We Draw
Faithful Responses to a Polarized America
Matthew Tennant | Judson Press | 2020
Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
Original Edition by Abingdon-Cokesbury Press | 1949
Commemorative Edition (pictured) by Beacon Press | 2022
The Great Awakening
Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America
Jim Wallis | HarperOne | 2008
Join the Resistance
Step into the Good Work of Kingdom Justice
Michelle Ferrigno Warren | InterVarsity Press | 2022
The Power of Proximity
Moving Beyond Awareness to Action
Michelle Ferrigno Warren | InterVarsity Press | 2017
The Politics of the Cross
A Christian Alternative to Partisanship
Daniel K. Williams | Eerdmans | 2021
Revolution of Values
Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | InterVarsity Press | 2025
From Lament to Advocacy
Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
gen. ed. Anne E. Wimberly, Nathaniel D. West and Annie Lockhart-Gilroy | Abingdon Press | 2025
The Politics of Jesus
John Howard Yoder | Eerdmans | 1994
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