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.