May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the culture, achievements, history, and traditions of AAPI individuals in the United States. This month and every month, we affirm and uplift the literary contributions of our AAPI authors, whose expertise, creativity, and knowledge grace our bookshelves all year long.
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw
Who is God when we see God through the eyes of survivors? Many books have dealt with abuse scandals in the church and the role of pastoral care for survivors. Others have provided liberatory readings of biblical texts to support survivors. Surviving God centers the voices of sexual abuse survivors while rethinking key Christian beliefs to lead us to deep healing and a transformed church.
Disillusioned by narrow theology and constricted dogma, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms. What if there are nooks and crannies of faith we have yet to explore? In A Faith of Many Rooms, Debie Thomas claims that the space where God dwells is expansive and full of belonging.
Everything Good about God Is True
You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. But what if someone asked: "What do you believe?" In Everything Good about God Is True, Bruce Reyes-Chow helps us consider what it means to choose faith and how to create one's own "faith montage." What if we could articulate the gospel of love, humility, and justice? What if everything good about God is true?
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. But what does social justice work look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Alongside inspiring, real-life examples of highly sensitive world-changers, Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul expands the possibilities of how to have a positive social impact, affirming the particular gifts that sensitive souls offer to a hurting world.
Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left evangelicalism, would I have been there?
The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. In Preparing for War, religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots. Through chapters on White supremacy and segregationist theologies, conspiracy theories, the Christian-school movement, purity culture, and the right-wing media ecosystem, Onishi pulls back the curtain on a subculture that has taken a dangerous turn.
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. Award-winning author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories—escaping into her books on the fire escape of an apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now she invites us to explore the promise of seven children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds.
This Book Won't Make You Happy
Happiness is fleeting. What if you don't even need it to live a life of peace and purpose? In This Book Won't Make You Happy, Niro Feliciano offers a path to something much more achievable and satisfying: contentment. By incorporating eight simple postures rooted in cognitive behavioral science and mindfulness practices into our daily routines, we can move away from anxiety and toward balance.
Too many of us are living disconnected from our bodies, chasing a constantly moving target of "ideal," and accepting the societal narrative about which bodies are deserving. Your Body Is a Revolution is an invitation to reclaim what has been stolen from us, to embrace the wisdom our bodies long to share, and to fully inhabit our lives—perhaps for the first time.
Financial markets disenfranchise women, the 99 percent, and the planet itself. But what if we found the source of power and made the tools of the system available to all? In The Defiant Optimist, Durreen Shahnaz illuminates what investing in those excluded from networks of power and opportunity requires. From growing up with constrained life chances, to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a global leader in impact investing, Shahnaz takes us on a mesmerizing trek of innovation, compassion, and enterprise.
God's love for us breaks every boundary—and so should our love for each other. In Outside the Lines, Mihee Kim-Kort shows us a God who loves us with a queer love through the life, work, and witness of Jesus. Our faith in that God becomes a queer spirituality—a spirituality that crashes through definitions and moves us outside of the categories of our making. Whenever we love ourselves and our neighbors with the boundary-breaking love of God, we live out this queer spirituality in the world.
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