Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Right’s Ideas About Education. By Eleanor J. Bader / The Progressive
Jemar Tisby on ‘The Spirit of Justice’ and the Black Christians who pursued it. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
A Lincoln parable: A review of Our Ancient Faith. By Stephen Healey / Christian Century
Belief, Experience, and Expectations of God. The Russell Moore show: A Conversation with Steve Cuss / Christianity Today
Gladwell reexamines ‘The Tipping Point’ — releasing ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point.’ By Steve Inskeep / Morning Edition NPR
How yesterday’s Black Christian nationalists planted the seeds for a Black utopia. By Kathryn Post / RNS
Know Your Enemy: Political Fictions. By Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell / Dissent Podcast
When ‘Between the World and Me’ Faced a School Book Ban, Ta-Nehisi Coates Decided to Report It Out. By Ta-Nehisi Coates / Vanity Fair
A bold guide to confronting racism in white Christianity. RNS Press Release
An extraordinary new history of Emmett Till, Mississippi and America. Review by Aram Goudsouzian / Wash Post
The History and Future of the Black Quarterback. By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Watch “They’re Eating The Dogs – New Hit Song!” on YouTube. Watch here
Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote / book by by Marc Favreau and Michael Eric Dyson / Thrift books
The End of Democracy Has Already Begun. By Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomeranrtsev / The Atlantic Podcast
Venus Williams’ new book ‘Strive’ details 8 steps she says she lives by. By Michel Martin / NPR
“Becoming a Whole Man” with Rasool Berry. Christianity Today
The lessons of America’s deadliest presidential election in 1872. By David Martin Davies / The Source
In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism. By Yonat Shimron / RNS
Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist Roots Exposed In Secret Recording. By David Kurtz / TPM
Walz rallies union workers as he hits campaign trail on his own for first time. By Lauron Barron-Loez and Eliot Barnhart / PBS Video
My Old Church’s Fundamentalist Wing Canceled Me. By David French and Aaron Retica / NYT
OCTOBER LONDON; The Rebirth of Marvin (Death Row Records). By Mark Turner / Soul and Jazz and Funk
The Dark Delight of Being Strange. Black Stories of Freedom / By James B. Haile III
New book chronicles the formerly enslaved man crucial to creating Jack Daniel’s. By Geogg Bennett, Stephanie Kotuby and Alexa Gold / PBS
The shared root of antisemitism and White supremacy: A review of Christian Supremacy. By Kathryn Julian / The Christian Century
What I See in the Video of Sonya Massey’s Killing. By Jenisha Watts / The Atlantic (Image IPM)
