These resources are intended to help us get started on our anti-racism journey. They come highly recommended by various church leaders and members throughout the church, but have not all been read by staff or elders. We believe it is good to be challenged, so please take some of the material to your small group for further discussion. As always, staff and elders are available for further processing. Our hope in providing this list is that we, the church, would be part of ushering in a brand new day that sees people of every color and background, stand equally side-by-side, as it will be one day in heaven. - Pastor Aaron

Books

1. Be the Bridge - Latasha Morrison
2. Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
3. Mother to Son - Jasmine L. Holmes
4. Let Justice Roll Down - John Perkins
5. Prophetic Lament - Soon-Chan Rah
6. Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
7. Woke Church - Eric Mason
8. White Awake - Daniel Hill
9. The Third Option - Miles McPherson
10. The Black and the Blue - Matthew Horace
11. Between the World and Me - Ta-nehisi Coates
12. Tribes - Sebastian Junger

Kids Books

1. God’s Very Good Idea - Trilia Newbell
2. Let it Shine- stories of black women freedom fighters - Andrea Davis-Pinkney
3. Moses - when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
4. The Day You Begin

Small Group Studies

• Be the Bridge - LaTasha Morrison
• Right Now Media (video resources)
  • Oneness Embraced - Tony Evans
  • The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby
  • Race, Justice, and the Church - Eric Mason
  • Integrated, yet still segregated - Leonce Crump

Research

• Stats and figures for understanding systemic racism
  https://www.thenewprogressive.net/ultimate-white-privilege-statistics/

DTS Distinguished Alum who have recently spoken about the events happening in our nation.

• Tony Evans, Senior Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church
• Eric Mason, Lead Pastor of Epiphany Fellowship Church
• Pastor Bryan Carter, Senior Pastor of Concord Church

DTS Chapel messages:

• Rage and Racism in America—Dr. Frank Glover
• Your Excellency’s Ambassadors— Dr. Celestin Musekura
• Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel on Unity—Pastor Trip Lee
• Learn to Cry: A Theology of Tears—Rev. Vincent Parker 
• Hispanos: Reluctantly Welcomed or an Unprecedented Opportunity—Pastor Carlos Zazueta
• One New Humanity—Dr. Barry Jones
• Overcoming Our Prejudices Through Christ—Pastor Matt Chandler
• One New Man—Pastor Bryan Loritts
• Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel on Unity— Larry Mercer
• A Discussion on Racial Reconciliation with the late Dr. Eddie Lane and Dr. Willie Peterson
• The History of the African-American Church—Dr. Rick Rigsby

Podcasts:

• Truths Table
• We talk different
• Leaving Hate Behind
• Diverse Views on Multicultural Conversations
• Learning from Difficult Conversations on Diversity
• Ministry Amidst Racial Injustice in South Africa
• An African-American Story
• Diversity and Reconciliation in the Early Church
• The Church’s Role in Racial Reconciliation
• A Biblical View of Racial Unity
• Biblical Racial Reconciliation  

DTS Articles:

• The Absolute Absurdity of a Supreme Race
• DTS Magazine Diversity Issue
  • I Don’t See You as a Black Friend
  • How to Seek Unity in Diversity: First Steps
• Oneness Embraced: Through the Eyes of Tony Evans

Movies

• Just Mercy
• Selma
• Harriet
• 13th - Netflix