“What are some books that every pastor should read?”
PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 15 recommendations for studying the intersection of church and race:
- James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
- Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
- Martin Luther King , Strength to Love
- Willie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
- James Cone, God of the Oppressed
- Martin Luther King , Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
- Coretta Scott King, My Life, My Love, My Legacy
- David Leong, Race and Place
- Robert Jones, White Too Long
- Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Tom Skinner, Black and Free
Womanism
- Bettye Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979
- Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
- Katie Geneva Cannon, Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
- Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength