Holding Faith in Divided Times Resource List

Documentaries and podcasts 

Bad Faith: documentary on Amazon prime

Bad Faith podcast with Eddie Glaude on changing the structure of politics https://youtu.be/w8LrBSjmtRw?si=HZcuAKt6gVyC2tEr.

Drew Strait, webinar on Christian Nationalism:  https://www.ambs.edu/learn-now/what-is-christian-nationalism/#h-view-our-recent-webinar

Drew Strait’s Webinar bibliography: https://www.ambs.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bibliography-Political-Idolatry-Countering-Christian-Nationalism.pdf

Project 2025 explained: https://redwine.blue/project2025/

Jim Crow of the North by TPT

Movies 

Just Mercy

Dear White People

Selma

Malcolm X

Central Park Five

Articles 

Randall Balmer, The Real Origins of the Religious Right
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

A Christian Nation? Public Religion Research Institute,
https://www.prri.org/research/a-christian-nation-understanding-the-threat-of-christian-nationalism-to-american-democracy-and-culture/

Dealing with election stress 

https://counseling.uci.edu/resources/virtual-resources/5343-2/

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/07/18/nx-s1-5041980/politics-election-anxiety-mental-health-tips

Books 

Prequel: An American Fight Against Facism, Rachel Maddow

God’s Politics, Jim Wallis

Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies, NT Wright

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi

White Fragility, Robin Diangelo

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

Resources used in our workshop 

The False White Gospel, Jim Wallis

Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, David Gushee

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta

The Myth of a Christian Nation, Greg Boyd

Prophetic Lament, Soong-Chan Rah

Significant Black literature 

Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

See Resources page on our website for resources on LGBTQ inclusion.