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 We Call Ourselves Disciples introduces the core beliefs, history, and practices of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Written by twelve pastors and scholars, this book offers a clear, accessible look at Scripture, justice, worship, unity, diversity, and congregational life. Whether you’re new to the movement or deepening your faith, it provides a concise guide to what it means to be a Disciple today. 

Color Me Free is a coloring book invitation to slow down. No goals. No pressure. No productivity attached. Just pages designed to quiet your mind, soften your breath, and give your nervous system a break from being “on” all the time. Each illustration offers a gentle escape from the noise, the notifications, and the constant demand to do more. Color at your own pace. Pause when you want. Put it down and come back whenever you need a moment of peace.

 The Gathering, A Womanist Church offers an intimate look at the first congregation founded explicitly on womanist theology. Through personal stories, womanist-centered sermons, and litanies for worship, the book traces the church’s birth and ongoing growth.

Bitter the Chastening Rod builds on the legacy of Stony the Road We Trod with nineteen Africana biblical scholars offering cutting-edge essays on Jesus, criminalization, enslavement, and the whitening of biblical interpretation. The contributors share teaching strategies and hermeneutical approaches that center Black Lives Matter and Black culture, blending biblical narratives, media analysis, and personal stories to explore Black rage, protest, anti-Blackness, and mothering amid Black precarity. 

 Slavery's Long Shadow: Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity 

How interactions of race and religion have influenced unity and division in the church 

At  the center of the story of American Christianity lies an integral  connection between race relations and Christian unity. Despite claims  that Jesus Christ transcends all racial barriers, the most segregated  hour in America is still Sunday mornings when Christians gather for  worship. 

In Slavery's Long Shadow fourteen  historians and other scholars examine how the sobering historical  realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and  division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first  century. The book's three sections offer readers three different entry  points into the conversation: major historical periods, case studies,  and ways forward. Historians as well as Christians interested in racial  reconciliation will find in this book both help for understanding the  problem and hope for building a better future.

 This book integrates womanist biblical interpretation with trauma theory while closely examining survival and the language of survival in the Hebrew Bible.

While survival is often a theme lifted when exploring Esther, the focus is typically on Jewish survival. This books centers the experiences of non-Jewish women and girls, specifically the virgin girls taken with Esther and Zeresh, the wife of Haman, amplifying their presence and reading their narratives alongside the autobiographies of Maya Angelou and Lezley McFadden to create a survival narrative that allows the reader to reimagine these often-overlooked girls and women.