Resources
For when the world seems awful and you don’t know why
Books
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils by Thomas Jay Oord
The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence by Thomas Jay Oord
Satan and the Problem of Evil by Gregory Boyd
To help you think about race, justice, and faith
Books
Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist By Elle Dowd
How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
Is Christianity the White Man's Religion? by Antipas L. Harris
A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone
Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity by Miguel A. De La Torre
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity by Robert Chao Romero
American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty by George E. Tinker
Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology by Chung Hyun Kyung
Podcasts
For when you need some helpful ways to think about the bible
Books
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns
Reading the Bible From the Margins by Miguel A. De La Torre
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction To The Women Of The Torah And The Throne by Wilda C. Gafney
The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us by Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine
Podcasts
to help you think about sex, identity, and God
Books
Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust
Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts
Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex by Bromleigh McCleneghan
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
Sex as God Intended by John J. McNeill
The War on Sex by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe
Good Sexual Citizenship: How to Create a (Sexually) Safer World by Ellen Friedrichs
Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Podcasts
To help you think about LGBTQia2+ identity, life, and faith
Books
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines
Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships by James V. Brownson
The Rebuttal: A Biblical Response Exposing the Deceptive Logic of Anti-Gay Theology by Romell Parks-Weekly
Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach between the Church and the LGBT community by Kathy Baldock
Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs
Podcasts
To help you throuGh College
Belovedness: Finding God (and Self) On Campus Edited by Becky Zartman and James Franklin