Lisa Sharon Harper
Biography
Lisa Sharon Harper wrote Fortune and the foreword to Recovering Racists, and co-wrote Forgive Us with others.
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Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not)
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They're Not), Sarah Withrow King challenges us to look again at texts that may feel familiar, but only because we've read them a thousand times from the same perspective. But what if we change perspective? What if the biblical writers and the people they wrote about didn't see the world as we see it? What if those writers and people were not western, linear, dualistic thinkers who saw people as separate from creation, but rather as part of it. What if God cares deeply for the entire community of creation? If so, then Withrow King's book is a gift to us all, offering one of the most comprehensive examinations of God's treatment of animals (and fauna) that I have ever seen. And as the title hints--she has fun doing it. Animals Are Not Ours is a great and important read.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I have been waiting for this book. Randall Balmer’s Bad Faith is the essential reader for all who want to know how America was pushed to the brink and how the evangelical church was led off a cliff. Balmer’s Bad Faith tells the story of how white supremacy was, and continues to be, the central motivating factor of the Religious Right—not abortion. This quick and easy read packs a mighty punch. Every American must read this book before they cast their next vote.”
“In a world sick with domination, striving, and consumption, Randy Woodley's Becoming Rooted offers a strong dose of very good medicine. This is a must-read for everyone who longs for peace.”
“Robyn Henderson-Espinoza's Body Becoming is pure gift. The story and wisdom of this nonbinary, transgender, Latinx theologian on the autistic spectrum presses squarely into the center of what it means to be embodied. In Body Becoming, Henderson-Espinoza takes readers along on their journey to understand, accept, and embrace embodied living. We all need this book. And in the midst of the COVID pandemic, we are ready for it. Get this book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Dear White Christians is a must-read. This kind of unflinching analysis is both rare and powerful. Through thorough analysis coupled with prophetic vision, Harvey decodes the mystery of the failure of the ‘racial reconciliation’ movement and offers clear direction forward toward the repair of our racialized society. All seminarians and pastors should read this book. And if every person in the pews of white churches read Harvey’s love letter to them, then our nation might actually have a chance to realize Dr. King's vision of the beloved community.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Jubilee, Sabbath, Sabbatical Year, and the Old Testament gleaning laws are four pillars of God’s governance—the kind that cultivate shalom. Shalom is the overwhelming goodness of all relationships in creation. Shalom is ethical and it is necessarily economic. Shalom is about the ties that bind us—the policies, the laws, and the structures that order the way we live together in the world. As we sit in the shadow of a global pandemic that clarified the expendableness of “essential” workers and the protectedness of our ruling class, followers of Jesus are rightfully critiquing and interrogating traditional Western economic practices and values. In this context, Adam Gustine and José Humphreys offer Ecosystems of Jubilee, a profound and meticulous biblical framework for the divine economics of Jubilee. This book is a must-read. Then it is a must do.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Inspired by Gandhi, King, Chavez and the work of past and present-day faith-rooted organizers, Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel have taken their visions and written them down. Salvatierra illuminates the spiritual principles that guided the civil rights and farmworkers movements. Heltzel helps us understand how this work is not only about justice in this world, it is the work of the gospel itself. This book is a gift to the church and the world. Definitely required reading for any congregation that wants to put their faith into action in today's world.”
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything
Church Leadership & Ministry
“It’s hard to see what we don’t see—especially when it is hidden from us. White Christians across the US owe Michael Mather a debt of gratitude. He has opened up his life and story and offered an opportunity to see what has been hidden—through his eyes. Walk with him on this journey of transformation. It will be worth it.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Inward Apocalypse is a gift to all who long for faith with power to ground us in these shifting times. With clarity, wit, and surprising insight, Howard drops gems as she leads readers through apocalypse to the common good.”
My Body Is Not a Prayer Request
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Kenny writes with devastating humor and uncommon depth that will remind readers of Anne Lamott. You will laugh, weep, and fume with rage—all on the same page. The words she writes will matter to you. They will change the way you see—everything. Kenny’s courage to say the things that need to be said is only matched by the skill with which she wields her proverbial pen. All hail this new and necessary voice.”
Christian Living
“Now What? is an essential read for our toxic time. In an era of profound division and pain, Sarah and Beth help us see the power we have to heal the world. It rests in the relationships we already have—at home and across the globe. Read this book and discover a path forward paved with curiosity, grace, and connection.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Angela Denker's Red State Christians is pure revelation. Denker's empathetic ear combines with dogged reporting to reveal Trumpism's genesis and the nature of its stronghold in Red State America. This book is essential reading for all Americans.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“From slavery and Jim Crow to mass incarceration, the confinement and control of black bodies in the United States has always been the heartbeat of the Republic's strategy to maintain white dominion. Twisted theologies grew like hedges of support and wicked webs of justification for crimes against the humanity of African peoples. White supremacy's most long-standing strategy has largely stayed intact because we have not cut down its supports at the root. Dominique Gilliard's Rethinking Incarceration chops at the roots of mass incarceration by challenging the theological premises upon which it rests. Gilliard's exacting historical lens, combined with masterful biblical work, unravels and uproots the hedges of support for mass incarceration while painting a new theological vision of reform and redemption in the United States. This is a must-read.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“A monumental gift to the church and to survivors alike. With profound insight and theological precision, Kim and Shaw reexamine the Scriptures from the point of view of the God who survives, survivors in the Scriptures, and Jesus--the survivor of sexual violence. Surviving God is both indictment and healing balm for the church in an age of reckoning.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Ken Wytsma is a white evangelical man from a conservative white evangelical world, and he is doing his homework on race. I've witnessed Ken's journey toward deeper understanding of the construct of race, its impact on individuals and communities of color, and what redemption requires. I've witnessed the wrestling and the transformation as aha moments have moved him into deeper love, more solid commitment, and earnest work toward the healing of our world. Through The Myth of Equality, Wytsma offers a peek at his homework. But this is no cheat sheet. It's a journal of discoveries shared with humility, grace, and unrelenting commitment to truth.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“At once practical and profound, Ben McBride's Troubling the Water reflects the hard-earned wisdom of the author--a practitioner and prophet. McBride's own story offers invaluable guidance for all who wish to be healing agents in our writhing world. But this is not a simple how-to book. McBride leads readers to the heart of the problem--we are failing to see each other (and ourselves) as human. Then he casts a vision and points the way toward a radical kind of belonging that challenges us all to the core. Read this book. It will change you.”
History & Biography
“Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement lit a prophetic fire that changed the world, and her life witness stands tall among giants. D.L. Mayfield's Unruly Saint is a gift to the world for right now.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Essential reading right now. Beautiful writing combined with sharp discernment as Dark calls readers to reflect on our all-too-common fear and shame-based reactivity to change. In a rapidly shifting world Dark models for us all what it looks like to face our own demons with grace and rigor.”
Preaching & Worship
“Each page of We Pray Freedom is testimony--evidence of God's connection with and empowerment of real faith communities in times of actual transition, crisis, grief, hope, and triumph. Receive this evidence and its grounding practices as a gift.”
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