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Social Justice

The world is full of injustice, but God calls Christians to work for peace and equity here and now. What's the next step on your justice journey? These social justice books are great starting points for Christians who want to gain awareness of today's most pressing societal problems and transform that knowledge into practical action for the good of the world.

Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice, By David W. Swanson
Plundered
David W Swanson
Confronting Sexism in the Church: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It, By Heather Matthews
Confronting Sexism in the Church
Heather Matthews
Lay Me in God's Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial, By Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke
Lay Me in God's Good Earth
Kent Burreson and Beth Hoeltke
Iglesia mestiza: Cinco siglos de justicia social, teología e identidad latina, By Robert Chao Romero
Iglesia mestiza
Robert Chao Romero
Penny Preaches: God Gives Good Gifts to Everyone!, By Amy Dixon and Rob Dixon
Penny Preaches
Amy Dixon and Rob Dixon
Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters, By Ed Uszynski
Untangling Critical Race Theory
Edward Thomas Uszynski
Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God's Eyes, By Amy L. Williams
Worth Seeing
Amy Lyn Williams
Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield, By Sean McGever
Ownership
Sean McGever
When God Became White: Dismantling Whiteness for a More Just Christianity, By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
When God Became White
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging, By Prasanta Verma
Beyond Ethnic Loneliness
Prasanta Verma
The Surface of Water: A Novel, By Cynthia Beach
The Surface of Water
Cynthia Beach
Awakening to Justice: Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past, By The Dialogue on Race and Faith Project and Jemar Tisby and Christopher P. Momany and Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou and David D. Daniels III and R. Matthew Sigler and Douglas M. Strong and Diane Leclerc and Esther Chung-Kim and Albert G. Miller and Estrelda Y. Alexander
Awakening to Justice
and Jemar Tisby and Esther Chung-Kim and Estrelda Y. Alexander and Christopher Momany and Sègbègnon Mathieu Gnonhossou and David Daniels and R. Matthew Sigler and Douglas M. Strong and Diane Kathleen Leclerc and Albert George Miller
Zion Learns to See: Opening Our Eyes to Homelessness, By Terence Lester and Zion Lester
Zion Learns to See
Terence Lester and Zion Lester
Church for Everyone: Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations, By Daniel Kreiss and Efrem Smith
Church for Everyone
Dan Kreiss and Efrem Smith
Persevering Power: Encouragement for When You're Oppressed by Life, By Bruce D. Strom
Persevering Power
Bruce D. Strom
Rethinking the Police: An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform, By Daniel Reinhardt
Rethinking the Police
Daniel Eugene Reinhardt
Just Discipleship: Biblical Justice in an Unjust World, By Michael J. Rhodes
Just Discipleship
Michael Jemison Rhodes
The Offensive Church: Breaking the Cycle of Ethnic Disunity, By Bryan C. Loritts
The Offensive Church
Bryan Loritts
All God's Children: How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity, By Terence Lester
All God's Children
Terence Lester
In Church as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture, By Jamaal E. Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
In Church as It Is in Heaven
Jamaal Ellis Williams and Timothy Paul Jones
From Pandemic to Renewal: Practices for a World Shaken by Crisis, By Chris Rice
From Pandemic to Renewal
Chris Rice
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion, By David A. Anderson
Gracism
David A Anderson
Healing Conversations on Race: Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology, By Veola Vazquez and Joshua Knabb and Charles Lee-Johnson and Krystal Hays
Healing Conversations on Race
Veola Elise Vazquez and Joshua J Knabb and Charles Courtney Lee-Johnson and Krystal Shelia Hays
Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action, By Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
Following Jesus in a Warming World
Kyle Meyaard-Schaap
The Wonders of Creation: Learning Stewardship from Narnia and Middle-Earth, By Kristen Page
The Wonders of Creation
Kristen Page