Resources for Understanding Justice and Reconciliation

One of the greatest needs at this moment is for our church family to listen to the voices of those who are mourning, who cry out for justice. When we seek understanding by listening to people of color, we’re able not only to grieve with those who grieve, but to seek justice for the suffering and oppressed.

Check out the written, video, and audio resources below that share perspectives on racial justice and reconciliation of the black community. Our prayer is that these resources will guide all of us in living as we are admonished in Micah 6:8, to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.

Read

• One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love – John Perkins
• Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice – Eric Mason
• Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice – Brenda Salter McNeil
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson
• Multiethnic Conversations: An Eight-Week Journey toward Unity in Your Church – Mark DeYmaz & Oney Fennell Okuwobi
• From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race – J. Daniel Hays
• Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian – John Piper
• God’s Very Good Idea: A True Story About GOD’s Delightfully Different Family – Trillia Newbell (Excellent for Kids)
• I Can’t Breathe: George Floyd, The Gospel, & Our Response (Part 1) – Senior Pastor Chris Brooks
• Moving from Lament to Leadership: George Floyd, The Gospel , & Our Response (Part 2) – Senior Pastor Chris Brooks
• Talking to Children About Race -Thabiti Anyabwile

Watch

• Selma – Amazon Prime
• Just Mercy – Amazon Prime
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – PBS
• MLK 50 Conference Keynote Videos – The Gospel Coalition
• One Thing White Evangelicals Should Understand About Racial Reconciliation – Thabiti Anyabwile
• Color Blind or Color Brave? – Mellody Hobson
• The Link – Episode 8: Ahmaud Arbery & A Response to Race and the Gospel – Woodside Bible Church

Listen

• A Gospel Response to Racial Unrest– Equipped with Chris Brooks
• One Blood – Parting Words on Race with John Perkins – Equipped with Chris Brooks
• Race & The American Church with Jemar Tisby – Equipped with Chris Brooks
• From KKK to the Cross of Christ with Tom Tarrants – Equipped with Chris Brooks
• Critiquing Critical Theory with Dr. Neil Shevni – Equipped with Chris Brooks
• God’s Very Good Idea with Trillia Newbell – Equipped with Chris Brooks
• Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters: Racism and our Need for Repentance – David Platt
• Racial Justice and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity – Russell Moore