Academy Recommended Spiritual Formation and Antiracism Reading
To go deeper in the work of spiritual formation and antiracism, Academy faculty suggest the following reading:
- Barbara Holmes, Race and Cosmos, second edition
- Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
- Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy
- The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States
- White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America by Anthea Butler
- Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Drew Hart
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
- What LIES Between Us Journal & Guide: Fostering First Steps Toward Racial Healing by Dr. Lucretia Berry
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda Magee
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone
- So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo