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Bridge-Building

These are resources that I have found helpful in my journey to learn more about the divisions that exist today over ethnicity/race and how to be bridge those gaps. This is not a definitive list by any means, so I will be making additions. Not all books are by Christian authors.

Books:

Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions  - Anthony Bradley, ed.

American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea - John Wilsey

Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump - John

Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia -  Jill Ogline Titus

A Different Mirror: A Multicultural History of America - Roland Takaki

Disunity in Christ - Christena Cleveland

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael Emerson, Christian Smith

Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church - various contributors

How to Think - Alan Jacobs

The Making of Asian America - Erika Lee

The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity - Soong Chan Rah

Religion and American Culture - George Marsden

The Search for Christian America - Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, George Marsden

Strong and Weak - Andy Crouch

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White - Frank Wu

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg

Blogs:

Colorblind Christians
Reformed African American Network
Reformed Margins

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