Non-Fiction
White Lies – Daniel Hill
I have to admit that I wasn’t sure about White Lies. I had the same feeling when I read through White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo? With so many people of color—Jemar Tisby, Brenda Salter McNeil, […]
Genre: Racial Reconciliation
Non-Fiction
The House that Love Built – Sarah Jackson
My first interaction with the refugee crisis came in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where our local jail was being used as an ICE detention facility. Over a dozen asylees were released near midnight with only their clothes […]
Non-Fiction
Dear White Christians – Jennifer Harvey
Dear White Christians is one of those books that it took me a while to get through. (My apologies to Eerdmans, who is probably convinced I forgot all about them.) In the wake of George […]
Non-Fiction
Becoming Brave – Brenda Salter McNeil
Dr. Brenda, when are you going to talk about justice? That was the question that altered Brenda Salter McNeil’s entire paradigm of racial reconciliation. It has been her life’s pursuit for three decades. She had […]
Non-Fiction
Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation – Mark Vroegop
In Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation, white pastor Mark Vroegop shares what he has learned from his church about how to have conversations across lines of difference without suspicion […]
Non-Fiction
The Myth of the American Dream – D.L. Mayfield
This is going to be a rather rambling review. I picked up The Myth of the American Dream on the basis of the title alone. My whole early adulthood has been spent deconstructing my distinctly […]
Non-Fiction
Mother to Son – Jasmine Holmes
As you might guess by the title, Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope, I—a white male—am not exactly the target demographic for this book. But, in another sense, I’m […]