Racial Healing and Justice
The Cathedral Book Store has many racial healing books, from meditations and social commentary to discussions of serious racial issues. If you want to be a part of the change or have been a victim of racial stigmatism, our Christian books can help you find solutions. Find the guidance you need here.
The Church Cracked Open by Stephanie Spellers
"This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history."
— The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
— The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
$16.95
Stamped From the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas In America by Ibram Kendi
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
$19.99
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work. Featured by Oprah's Book Club on the Anti-Racist Books for Young Adults list.
$14.99
The Fire This Time : a New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
A surprise New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race—collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation—are “thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful.
$16.00
How To Be And Antiracist by Ibrahim Kendi
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times
$27.00
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
This "powerful and disturbing history" exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide. (New York Times Book Review)
$17.95
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
$16.00
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
New York Times bestseller by author Tracy Kidder tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell, a gifted man who invented a community of care for a city’s unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets—the “rough sleepers.”
$30.00
Reconciliation: the Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu (Revised) by Michael Battle
Reconciliation is an analysis of Bishop Tutu's theology of ubuntu - an African concept recognizing that persons and groups form their identities in relation to one another.
$24.00
Seeing the Unseen: Beyond Prejudices, Paradigms, And Party Lines by Mark Beckwith
A bishop and gun safety activist offers a way forward from opposing viewpoints.
$19.95
The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.
$28.99
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji
“Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The
$17.00
What Makes You Come Alive: a Spiritual Walk With Howard Thurman by Lerita Coleman Brown (Hardback)
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."--Howard Thurman
$26.99
The Night Is Long But Light Comes In the Morning: Meditations For Racial Healing by Catherine Meeks, Foreword by Michael B. Curry
From the winner of The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, a spiritual guide to restoring yourself from racial trauma and committing to the long work of dismantling racism.
$25.00
Ubuntu: I In You And You In Me by Michael Battle
The African principle of Ubuntu offers believers a new and radical way of reading the Gospel and understanding the heart of the Christian faith. This book explores the meaning and utility of Ubuntu applied to Western philosophy, faith, and lifestyles.
$23.95