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An Other Kingdom takes us out of a culture of addictive consumption into a place where life is ours to create together.  This satisfying way depends upon a neighborly covenant—an agreement that we together, will better raise our children, be healthy, be connected, be safe, and provide a livelihood. The neighborly covenant has a different language than market-hype. It speaks instead in a sacred tongue.

In Burying White Privilege De La Torre argues that centuries of oppression and greed have effectively ruined evangelical Christianity in the United States. The silence concerning—if not the doctrinal justification of—racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia has made white Christianity satanic. Prophetically calling Christian nationalists to repentance, De La Torre rescues the biblical Christ from the distorted Christ of white Christian imagination.

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. 

White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, 

The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status.

The acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates in Jesus Disinherited how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised.

Rebuilding the Foundations demonstrates the social relevance of profound biblical scholarship

Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up Rev. Martin Luther King's unfinished work. People are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.