Liz Theoharis
Biography
Liz Theoharis wrote Always with Us?, edited We Cry Justice, and co-edited We Pray Freedom with Charon Hribar.
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Christian Living
“Better Than Normal is a liberating, loving, and deeply prophetic book. MaryAnn McKibben Dana invites us to lay down the myth of ‘normal’ that has harmed so many for so long, and instead to imagine communities where every person’s dignity is honored and every life can flourish. Echoing Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s proclamation that he was ‘proud to be maladjusted’ to injustice and conformity, McKibben Dana names the forces that confine us and offers a powerful vision of abundance, authenticity, and collective liberation. This book is a gift for anyone committed to justice, to beloved community, and to building a world where all of us—not just a narrow few—can thrive.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“If you believe we must build a multiracial, intergenerational, inclusive, and peace-loving democracy dedicated to all humans flourishing and a sustainable planet, Bring Back Your People is an absolute, total must-read. With anecdotes and lessons equal parts hilarious, soul-crushing, and deeply hopeful, Scott offers analysis, examples, and how-tos to counter-recruit and overcome White Christian nationalism. Be prepared to laugh, cry, and be inspired to organize, organize, organize.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“We can live in a world where everyone flourishes; it is what God intends. This life-affirming vision is at the heart of Cynthia Moe-Lobeda's book. Read this book if you find abandonment amid abundance and poverty amid plenty immoral and wrong, and to find a path that affirms that ending poverty is possible; indeed, it is what our God of justice demands.”
Everything Good about God Is True
Christian Living
“Bruce Reyes-Chow's book refuses to concede Christianity to extremism and makes the compelling case for a Christian practice that is rooted in openness, reconciliation, justice, truth, and love. As a pastor, biblical scholar, and anti-poverty activist, I have always been taken that the 'faith of Jesus' and 'faith in Jesus' are written the same in biblical Greek. This book shows how faith in a justice-seeking, inclusive, all-loving God holds true to the faith that Jesus embodies.”
Christian Living
“Hanna Reichel’s For Such a Time as This is a small but mighty guide for Christians seeking to understand how to live faithfully in extraordinary times. It offers a clear-eyed, faithful witness to the challenge of authoritarianism and Christian nationalism we face right now and the resources our faith traditions have to meet this moment. Drawing from the courage and conviction of the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany, as well as a rich tradition of theological and scriptural reflection, Reichel equips us to engage the deep questions of our day with wisdom, courage, and conviction.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“In From Pulpit to Public Square , Richard Voelz has crafted an essential guide for clergy navigating the sacred and transformative space between Jesus and justice, pulpits and the public square. In a world that desperately needs the power of faith in matters of fairness, equity, and compassion, Voelz offers clergy the tools and theological grounding to preach the good news of justice with integrity, authenticity, and purpose. He insists on the important truth that our faith traditions are not limited to the four walls of the church but extend to the highways and byways, the public squares, and the places where social transformation happens.”
Christian Living
“Those searching for truth, belonging, healing, justice and divine wisdom must read In Trembling Boldness! In this tender, surprising, nuanced, complex, and hopeful book, Natalie Perkins and Hal Taussig ‘interpret’ powerful and too oft unknown wisdom texts from the Jesus movement and share modern-day parables for contemporary life.”
Rev.
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In a world teetering on the edge of division, injustice, and despair, Light for the Way is the kind of book we need now more than ever--a guide and companion on the journey toward repair, renewal, and a justice revival. In these pages, you will find not just theological reflection but a morally rooted call to action, inviting us to practice as we preach and to learn as we lead. Light for the Way is a timely and essential read for all those looking to cultivate a faith that is both deeply personal and powerfully collective, for the sake of the world and the flourishing of all God's people.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In Plenty Good Room, Andrew Wilkes offers the biblical and theological foundations for economic democracy. Rooting his arguments in Black prophetic religion and principles of democratic socialism, Wilkes demonstrates that there is no distance between Jesus and justice. Plenty Good Room preaches the good news that ending poverty is possible. In fact, it's what God requires and what all people of conscience must make real.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“John Noltner artfully weaves his own story and experiences with those of hundreds of people he has encountered or interviewed, and, perhaps most importantly, whose stories he has helped tell. These stories challenge us, expand us, surprise us, and push all of us to become more human.”
Christian Living
“Activist, theologian, and sister in the struggle Lindsey Krinks weaves together stories from her upbringing with stories of those left out of the prosperity God intends for all. With great sensitivity and honesty, she calls people to fix their gaze on the stark reality of poverty and homelessness, and witnesses to how poor and homeless leaders and people of faith and conscience endeavor to do something about it. I am familiar with many of the people’s stories lifted up by Krinks and thank her for treating the lives and wounds of so many of God’s people as serious and sacred, and for recognizing them as moral and political agents of change.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“There’s no room for white supremacy in heaven. This and other truths in Miguel De La Torre’s latest book are a must read! His historical study and contemporary analysis are sobering but necessary especially for anyone with ears to hear the good news of liberation and resistance from those marginalized by systemic racism and genocide.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Sanctuary is a must read. Throughout the book, Neumark weaves together stories from those bruised, battered, and abandoned in the midst of abundance and puts them in stark relief with the oppressive decrees of Donald Trump and his enablers. Neumark’s stories, from her own lived experience, embody the call of the gospel to preach good news to the poor and bring comfort to the broken amid bedbugs, detention centers, and systemic violence and injustice.”
Seeing and Being Jesus in the World
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“With pastoral wisdom and prophetic clarity, Kim-Kort helps families of all shapes and stripes see how Jesus is already present among ‘the least of these’ and calls us into courageous, collective action rooted in God’s radical welcome. This book guides readers—across generations—toward the hard, holy work of confronting poverty, racism, gender injustice, climate crisis, and militarism together.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“The Gravity of Joy is a story of hope in hard times. Angela Gorrell artfully tells her story of faith, pain, and joy. She weaves it with the stories of others—family, women she met in prison Bible study, students, travelers she met on her journey. And she shares a truth that perhaps is discovered only by those who have faced love and loss—especially those society has used and abused, denied dignity to in life and death: that joy comes in the mourning. I encourage all who hunger for justice, peace, acceptance, and comfort to read this book. In its pages you will find beautiful prose and hope that even in the darkest of spaces, places, and times—through addiction, suicide, sudden death, prison, abuse, and despair—love reigns, truth reigns, joy reigns.”
Preaching & Worship
“I thank Adam Hearlson for The Holy No: Worship as a Subversive Act and recommend it to all who are interested in worship that defies the confines of conformity to the power structures and celebrates communities of resistance. Such resistance is necessary—and, in fact, is commanded by our sacred traditions and texts.”
The Psychology of Christian Nationalism
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This timely book takes on the dominance of Christian nationalism and the influence of its false moral narrative on larger society (not only on or coming from an isolated group of Christians, nor solely under the influence of Donald Trump). For anyone concerned with building a social justice movement rooted in moral and constitutional values of equality, truth, peace, and abundance for all, Cooper-White’s diagnosis of and prescription for such religious nationalism—rooted in psychology, history, and Christian understandings—is a must-read!”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“As someone who was raised by activist parents, and as a parent who has brought my own children up in a movement for peace, justice, and equity, I appreciate The Sandbox Revolution. The essays in this book will challenge and comfort all those interested in raising generations of conscious and committed young people.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Beautifully written and with poetry sprinkled throughout, This Sweet Earth weaves family stories, social analysis, and practical suggestions to all interested in preparing ourselves and our young people for this time of climate change.”
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