Resources

Books:

• Biblical
  • “Two views of homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church” – Preston Sprinkle
  • “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Marriages” – Matthew Vines
  • “Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians” – Austen Hartke
  • “Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate in Same-Sex Relationships” – James V. Brownson
  • “The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart” – Mark Achtemeier

• Academic
  • “Liberating sexuality” – Miguel A. De la Torre.
  • “Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism” – Bernadette J. Brooten
  • “Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850” – H. G. Cocks
  • “Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights” – Heather R. White
  • “The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology” – Mark D. Jordan

 

• Church/Faith
  • “One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins” – Emmy Kegler
  • “Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community” – Kathy Baldock
  • “Holy Sexuality and the Gospel” – Christopher Yuan 
  • “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity” – James Martin
  • “Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism” – Deborah Jian Lee
  • “Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith” – Mihee Kim-Kort
  • “Solus Jesus” – Emily Swan and Ken Wilso
  • “Modern Kinship: A Queer Guide to Christian Marriage” – Constantino and David Khalaf
  • “Unashamed: A Coming Out Guide for LGBTQ Christians” – Amber Cantorna

 

• Memoir
  • “Embracing the Journey” – Greg And Lynn McDonald
  • “The Black Trans Prayer Book” – Co-Edited by J Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
  • “Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, Living Free From Shame” – Vicky Beeching
  • “Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate” – Justin Lee
  • “Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America” by Jeff Chu
  • “Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority” by Kevin Garcia

Books

• The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know by Tema Jon Okun
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism by Bell Hooks
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michael Alexander
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 
• I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing – Maya Angelou
• Me and White Supremacy: Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla Saad
• White Awareness by Judith H. Katz 

 

• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Book by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Legacy by Suzanne Methot
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

 

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege by Ken Wytsma
• Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York By Evan T. Pritchard
• Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism by Jack Forbes
• Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present – Jacqueline Jones.
• So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America – Peter Edelman.
• Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the U.S. – Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei.
• Neither Mothers nor Breadwinners: African-American Women’s Exclusion from US Minimum Wage Policies – Ellen Mutari, Marilyn Power, and Deborah M. Figart.
• Ain’t I a Woman? – Bell Hooks
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Websites and Articles

• Zinn Education Project – https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/?cond[0]=themes_str:Racism+&+Racial+Identity
• Dismantling Racism – https://www.dismantlingracism.org/
• What is White Supremacy culture? – https://www.dismantlingracism.org/white-supremacy-culture.html
• Characteristics of White Supremacy – https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

 

• Indian Country Today – https://indiancountrytoday.com/
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates – https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
• Tolerance.org – https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/lessons 
• On Indigenous Peoples – https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/indigenous-peoples/ 

 

• The Construction of Race and Racism – https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/Western%20States%20-%20Construction%20of%20Race.pdf 
• The Power of an Illusion – https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org 
• Andre Henry – http://andrehenry.co/thoughts 
• Anti-Racism resource document – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic

Video Resources

• Spiritual Activism with Ruby Sales – https://youtu.be/7fElaIn0Ij4 
• 13th Documentary – https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741 
• When They See Us – https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549 
• Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo – https://www.netflix.com/title/80225421 
• I Am Not Your Negro –http://www.iamnotyournegrofilm.com/ 

 

• A Time for Burning – A Time for Burning https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BB153Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3sq1EbBP5ZSS5 
• Who Killed Vincent Chin? – http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/whokilledvincentchin/ 
• The Next Question – https://www.tnqshow.com/ 
• On Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o 

 

• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – https://www.pbs.org/video/african-americans-many-rivers-cross-african-americans-many-rivers-cross/ 
• They called me Black by Victoria Santa Cruz – https://youtu.be/bZBHvMaTiuU 
• No. You Cannot Touch My Hair! By Mena Fombo – https://youtu.be/OLQzz75yE5A 
• Black Panthers White Lies by Curtis Austin – https://youtu.be/KPN8LHVeFYA 
• Supremacy by Ariana Brown – https://youtu.be/HB6UeWX7AoY 
• Movies to watch and movies to avoid in regards to civiles rights movement – https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/two-thumbs-up

Books

• Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel
• The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary
• The Awakened Family: How to Raise Empowered, Resilient, and Conscious Children by Shefali Tsabary

 

 

• Adult Children of Emotionally immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson
• Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

 

 

 

• The Whole Brain Child – Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Bryson
• Parenting Forward by Cindy Wang Brandt