Books for February & Black History Month

Happy Black History Month! Once a year, we dedicate a month to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and contributions of black Americans. This is not only an opportunity to remember black achievement, but it’s also a great opportunity to read some good books!

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  1. The talking book: African Americans and the Bible by Allen Dwight. Callahan. Amazon page
  2. The color of Christ: the Son of God & the saga of race in America by Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey. Amazon page
  3. Race: a theological account by J. Kameron Carter. Amazon page
  4. Longing for Jesus: worship at a black holiness church in Mississippi, 1895-1913 by Lester Ruth. Amazon page
  5. The Africana Bible: reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African diaspora by Hugh R. Page, Randall C. Bailey. Amazon page
  6. God delivers me: a model from Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century by Jacqulyn Thorpe. Amazon page
  7. Is God colour-blind? : Insights from black theology for Christian ministry by Anthony. Reddie. Amazon page
  8. Methodologies of Black theology by Frederick L. Ware. Amazon page
  9. The Black megachurch: theology, gender, and the politics of public engagement by Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs. Amazon page
  10. The genesis of liberation: biblical interpretation in the antebellum narratives of the enslaved by Emerson B. Powery, Rodney Steven Sadler. Amazon page
  11. The mount of vision: African American prophetic tradition, 1800-1950 by Christopher Z. Hobson. Amazon page
  12. Biblical studies, theology, religion, and philosophy: an introduction for African universities by James. Amanze, F. Nkomazana, Obed N. Kealotswe. Amazon page
  13. African American female mysticism : nineteenth-century religious activism by Joy R. Bostic. Amazon page
  14. Plantation church: how African American religion was born in Caribbean slavery by Noel Leo Erskine. Amazon page
  15. Politics in the pews: the political mobilization of Black churches by Eric L. McDaniel. Amazon page
  16. Divine callings: understanding the call to ministry in Black Pentecostalism by Richard N. Pitt. Amazon page
  17.  Native apostles: Black and Indian missionaries in the British Atlantic world by Edward E. Andrews. Amazon page