Here For It or How To Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (Format used for this read: Audiobook) R. Eric Thomas didnβt know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went – whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative Black church, or his…
All My Knotted Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore (Format used for this read: Audiobook) An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. βItβs a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back.…
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith & Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Format used for this book: Audiobook) The past few years I have been deconstructing ALL KINDS of things in my life. Most of which I didn’t even know I NEEDED to deconstruct, analyze and rebuild until…
How To Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice (Format used for this read: Print) Before I start this review, I will tell yall straight up that I went into this book 100% biasedβ¦ I am a BIG fan of Jemar Tisby. One of my tremendous friends/mentors, Kristina, introduced me to his…
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) Before I begin my review, I want to take a moment to honor the host peoples of the land that I currently reside on now. Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) ππ°ππ°ππ· πΌπππ» ππ»πΏπ· ππ°^ππ°^(Osage) OΔhΓ©thi…
Out Of Sorts: Making Peace of an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey (Format used for this read: Audiobook…and a teensy flip thru of the e-book) My friend Sarah (not this author LOL….but that would be SOOOO NEAT if I knew her in real life!!!!) recommended this book to me recently. My friend has been witness…
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) This is my second time thru this extremely informative, extremely powerful and hugely impactful book. I read it the first time last summer. I learned and was convicted by so much in my first journey thru these pages…and the same thing happened…
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating For Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) In 2017, I watched a documentary that completely changed the way I viewed our prison system as well as our criminal justice system as a whole. That documentary was “13th” by Ava Duvernay. When I tell yall that…
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (Format used for this read: Print—hardback) I have had this book for over a year but it was misplaced on my shelf. (Such is a common issue when you own MANY books and your “To Be Read” pile is always…
The Road Back To You: An Enneagram Journey to Self Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stable (Format used for this read: Print–hardback–which is good because I think this is a book you will probably want to come back to more than once…see my why belowπ ) Let me start this off by saying…