Books

• What Would Jesus Deconstruct? - John Caputo

• The Politics of Jesús - Miguel de la Torre

• Indecent Theology: Theological Peversions in Sex, Gender and Politics - Marcella Althus-Reid

• The Location of Culture - Homi Bhabha

• Theology of the Cross Today - Mark Thompson

• Mujerista Theology - Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz

• Making a Way out of No Way - Monica Coleman

• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? - Martin Luther King Jr.

• Orientalism - Edward Said

• Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. - Lenny Duncan

• How Coffee Saved My Life: And Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace - Ellie Roscher

• The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? - Slavoj Žižek

• St. Paul - Pier Paolo Pasolini

• Jesus Christ: The Gospels - Terry Eagleton

• Reclaiming Rest - Kate Rademacher

• Leaving Home - Hazel Rochman & Darlene McCampbell

• An Altar in the World - Barbara Brown Taylor

• The Very Worst Missionary - Jamie Wright

• Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

• Mirror to the Church - Emmanuel Katongole

• The Boy Who Grew Flowers - Jen Wojtowicz

• Travel as a Political Act - Rick Steves

• Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

• Inspired - Rachel Held Evans

• Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

• Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life - Tish Harrison Warren

• When Helping Hurts - Steve Corbett

• Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us - Mark Yaconelli

Podcasts

• The Liturgists Podcast

Devotionals

• Prayers for a Privileged People - Walter Brueggemann

• The Bless the Space Between Us - John O'Donohue

• A Book of Uncommon Prayer - Brian Doyle

• Practice of the Presence: A Revolutionary Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher / Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Instagram

• Black Liturgies

• The Nap Ministry

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Books

• The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus - Damon Garcia

• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

• Me & White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

• We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent - Isabel Wilkerson

• How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir - Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Border and Rule - Harsha Walia

• The Dispossessed - John Washington

• The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W. Allen

• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life - Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields

• Black Lives Matter to Jesus - Marcus Jenkins

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

• Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US - Lenny Duncan

• This Here Flesh - Cole Arthur Riley

• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

• Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair - Duke Kwon

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson

• Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist - Elle Dowd

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia - Sabrina Strings

• My Grandmother’s Hands- Resmaa Menakem

Articles

• Graceful engagement: A conversation between Lutheran leaders on intersectionality

• Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization

• Structural Racialization: A Systems Approach to Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Racial Inequity

Documentaries

• Race: The Power of an Illusion

Ted Talks

Intersectionality with Kimberlé Crenshaw

Land acknowledgement

• http://native-land.ca

• https://www.elca.org/Our-Work/Congregations-and-Synods/Ethnic-Specific-and-Multicultural-Ministries/American-Indian-and-Alaska-Native

Small Group Resources

• Now is the Time study guide

• Now is the Time Video accompaniment series

Books:

• Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition - Rabbi Steven Greenberg

• Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians - Austen Hartke

• Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity - Rev. Elizabeth Edman

• One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins - Emmy KEgler

• Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue - Nicholas M. Teich

• Talking Across the Divie: How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World - Justin Lee

• Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story - Julie Rodgers

• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan

• #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing - Emily Joy Allison

• Brave: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Grief, Mercy, Folly, Joy, Sex, and Redemption - Alice Connor

• Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms - Matthias Roberts

Devotionals:

• Queers the Word: A 40 Day Devotional for LGBTQ+ Christians

Other:

• Alt Liturgies

Small group resources

• #NoPlasticsforLent

Books

• ELCA Advocacy: Tips for your engagement

• Discipleship and Civic Engagement

• Leaning in: Subversion & Proximity

• "On Earth As it is in Heaven" 

• Hunger at the Crossroads: Climate Justice & Hunger

• Climate Change and Hunger

• Food-Faith- Farming

• Planet on Fire - Matthew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton

• White Skin, Black Fuel - Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective

• Our Angry Eden: Faith & Hope on a Hotter, Harsher Planet - David Williams

• The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing - Lary Rasmussen

• Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together - Elizabeth Weinberg

• From the Beginning to Baptism by Linda Gibler

• Eco Womanism by Melanie L. Harris

• The EcoWomanistInstitute

• The Secret to Talking about Climate Change

• The Art of Re-Imagining Climate Justice

• Climate Adaptation in Zimbabwe

• Rewilding Tribal Lands: Wildlife Restoration Can Heal Ecosystems and Native Communities

• Permafrost Now

• Climate Solutions & Spiritual Leadership

• Lament

• Our prophetic Journey towards climate Justice Attachment

• Coastal Risk Screening Tool-Comparison: Long-Term Sea Level Outcomes

• Climate Church, Climate World

• The Climate Emergency Toolkit 

• Climate Action Tracker

• Climate Justice on Sacred Ground: The Role of Church Lands in Resilience and Adaptation

• Preparing Your Congregation for Climate Disasters

• Eco-Justice YouTube Playlist

• Faithful Resilience Guide

• Remixing Madagascar

• Earth Charter Introductory Course

• Webinar: Youth Leadership in A Changing World

• Climate Justice is Social Justice

Videos

• Climate Change's Uneven Impact on Communities of Color Compounded by Uneven Flow of Aid

Books

• Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage - Stephen Charleston

• As Long As Grass Grows; The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

• Unsettling Truths; the Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

• Living Resistance by Kaitlin Curtice

• Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice

• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

• Native Reads Bookshop

• American Indian Liberation by George Tinker (Osage)

• Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr (Lakota)

• Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva (Lumbee)

• God is Red by Vine Deloria Jr (Lakota)

• Mankiller, A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee)

• There There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho)

• Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep (non-Native and not sold at Native Reads)

ELCA-Specific:

• ELCA Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations

• A Declaration of the ELCA to the American Indian and Alaskan Native People

• Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery

• Indian Boarding Schools: ELCA Truth-Seeking and Truth-Telling Initiative

• Find the Native Land You're On

• Telling the truth about the lands we inhabit

• Land Acknowledgement Resources

• Journal of Lutheran Ethics: Doctrine of Discovery

• Bishop Eaton, Churches Beyond Borders leaders issue letter on Doctrine of Discovery

Other:

• Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools Policy Act

  • Investigative Report

Documentaries/Videos:

• Blood Memory: A Story of Removal and Return

• Native Nations - Standing Together for Civil Rights

• Dawnland (2018)

• Why Treaties Matter

• Inter(Nation)al

• We Shall Remain

TV Shows:

• Alaska Daily

• 1923

• Reservation Dogs

Web resources:

• Candid - Investing in Native Communities

  • Timeline

• Time-Lapse Stolen Lands Map

• Indian Boarding School Resources

Native podcasts

Invisible No More Spotify Playlist

Social Media:

National Congress of American Indians

• Facebook

• Twitter

National Museum of the American Indian

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

Association on American Indian Affairs

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

American Indian College Fund

• Facebook

• Twitter

• LinkedIn

• YouTube
  
  

National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• YouTube

News Outlets

• Native News Online

• Indian Country Today

• Indianz.org

Vance Blackfox:

• 2021 Vine Deloria Theological Symposium recordings

• All Creation (magazine)

• Other+Wise

• Vance's Facebook

• Vance's Instagram

• Vance Blackfox email