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Activism & Social Justice

You want to change the world. So do we.

In these times rife with anger and division, Chalice Press offers practical resources to help you grapple with today's most critical issues and respond faithfully. Our collection features award-winning titles from a diverse group of leading progressive Christian voices to help you engage today's urgent social issues, including racism, LGBTQ+ inclusion, climate change, suicide, mental illness, religious tolerance and cooperation, and more.  

  • Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White People Talk Faithfully about Racism, Second Edition
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    Anxious to Talk about It: Helping White People Talk Faithfully about Racism, Second Edition

    By Carolyn B. Helsel LOOK INSIDE Shipping now! Also available at: Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million Still anxious to talk a...

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  • Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights Odyssey
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    Something in the Water: A 21st Century Civil Rights Odyssey

    By Michael W. Waters Foreword by Beto O’Rourke LOOK INSIDE  Also available at: Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million  “A wake-...

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  • Faith after Ferguson: Resilient Leadership in Pursuit of Racial Justice
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    Faith after Ferguson: Resilient Leadership in Pursuit of Racial Justice

    By Leah Gunning Francis LOOK INSIDE Shipping Now!  Also available here: Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million “Faith after F...

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  • Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness and Marriage
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    Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness and Marriage

    By Sarah Griffith Lund LOOK INSIDE  Also available at: Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million  “A must-read book for clergy, pre...

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  • The World Is about to Turn: Mending a Nation’s Broken Faith
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    The World Is about to Turn: Mending a Nation’s Broken Faith

    By Rick Rouse, Paul O. Ingram LOOK INSIDE Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million  A top pick for activists, faith leaders, te...

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  • A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through the Politics of Compassion
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    A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through the Politics of Compassion

    By Mark Feldmeir LOOK INSIDE Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million  “...a clarion call for critical thinking and critical actio...

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  • Preaching about Racism: A Guide for Faith Leaders
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    Preaching about Racism: A Guide for Faith Leaders

    By Carolyn B. Helsel Book Preview Book of the Year Award 2019, Academy of Parish Clergy"Helsel is both unflinching about the need for transformativ...

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  • The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences
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    The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences

    By Carolyn B. Helsel, Y. Joy Harris-Smith Read a Preview Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million |  Recommended by th...

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  • To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope
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    To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope

    by Jennifer Bailey PREVIEW  Also Order on: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Books-A-Million | Cokesbury “I could not put this book down....

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  • Healing Racial Divides: Finding Strength in Our Diversity
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    Healing Racial Divides: Finding Strength in Our Diversity

    By Terrell Carter Book Preview "Carter’s wise work will compel white Christian readers to engage in race relations in a more up-front, graceful, an...

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  • Stakes Is High: Race, Faith, and Hope for America
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    Stakes Is High: Race, Faith, and Hope for America

    By Michael W. Waters Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million | Christianbook.com  Book Preview Foreword by Vashti Murp...

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  • Acting on Faith: Stories of Courage, Activism, and Hope Across Religions
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    Acting on Faith: Stories of Courage, Activism, and Hope Across Religions

    By Diane Faires Beadle, Jamie Lynn Haskins Read a Preview Ever wonder what your neighbors of different faiths think -- and do -- in response to...

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  • Transforming Communities: How People Like You are Healing Their Neighborhood
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    Transforming Communities: How People Like You are Healing Their Neighborhood

    By Sandhya Rani Jha Book Preview The world around us is a wreck. When there’s so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it’s easy ...

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  • Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood
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    Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood

    By Patrick B. Reyes Foreword by Jimmy Santiago Baca LOOK INSIDE When the screams of innocents dying engulf you, how do you hear God’s voice? Will G...

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  • Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines
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    Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the Front Lines

    By Sandhya Rani Jha BOOK PREVIEW Those people. Their issues. The day’s news and the ways we treat each other, overtly or subliminally, prove we a...

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  • Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times
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    Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times

    By Amanda Henderson Read a Preview Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million |  Daily living and loving in our fraught an...

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  • Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
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    Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up

    By Timothy Charles Murphy Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million | Christianbook.com  Book Preview "Gripping stories...

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  • A Bridge in Babylon: Stories of a Military Chaplain in Iraq
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    A Bridge in Babylon: Stories of a Military Chaplain in Iraq

    by Owen R. Chandler LOOK INSIDE Shipping Now!  Also available here: Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million   P...

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  • For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre
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    For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre

    By Sharon Risher with Sherri Wood Emmons LOOK INSIDE As featured on the Today Show, MSNBC, and CBS This Morning How do you forgive the unforgivab...

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  • Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation
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    Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation

    By Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Barbara Zelter Read a Preview "Powerful God-rooted words, yearning for equality and justice for all." –Sojourners I...

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  • Unified We Are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America's Inequalities
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    Unified We Are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America's Inequalities

    By Joerg Rieger, Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger Book Preview A "Best Books of 2016" selection by Ponderings On a Faith Journey!The American dream of “pu...

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  • Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care: A Resource for Religious Leaders and Professional Caregivers
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    Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care: A Resource for Religious Leaders and Professional Caregivers

    By Nancy J. Ramsay, Carrie Doehring Read a Preview How do you care for veterans suffering from the moral trauma of war? Military moral injury des...

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  • Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community
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    Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community

    By Leah Gunning Francis BOOK PREVIEW Foreword by Jim Wallis“This is not your granny's revolution. A fresh, new, holy uprising is happening if we wi...

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  • Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, a Messy Ministry, and the Call to Mobilize
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    Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, a Messy Ministry, and the Call to Mobilize

    By Derek Penwell Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million | Christianbook.com  Read a Preview Jesus did everything wro...

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