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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.  

  • Rooted in Faith and Justice: Christian Calls to Conscience & Cries for Peace in Palestine
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    Rooted in Faith and Justice: Christian Calls to Conscience & Cries for Peace in Palestine

    Edited by Rebekah Choate, Krista Johnson Weicksel, & Peter Makari Foreword by Shari Prestemon & LaMarco A. Cable Co-Executives of Global Mi...

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  • Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism
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    Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism

    by Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood foreword by Rev. Adriene Thorne Free downloads: Foreword and Chapter 1 Baptizing America Study Guide In the...

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  • A Journey Called Hope: Today’s Immigrant Stories and the American Dream
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    A Journey Called Hope: Today’s Immigrant Stories and the American Dream

    by Rick Rouseforeword by Rick Steves Read a sample Author Rick Rouse weaves a tapestry of immigrant experiences—successes, hopes, challenges, and d...

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  • Confessions of a Former Prosecutor
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    Confessions of a Former Prosecutor

    by Preston Shipp with Eric Wilson Read a Preview Preston Shipp, a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Tennessee whose work kept off...

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  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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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, pr...

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

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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 acti...

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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 transformati...

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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 and Y. Joy Harris-Smith Read a Preview Bookshop | Indiebound | Amazon | Barnes & NobleBooks-A-Million |  Recommended by ...

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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, a...

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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  Book Preview Foreword by Vashti Murphy McKenzie2018 Religion Communicators Council Wilbur Award Winner"Michael W. Waters... ...

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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

    edited by Diane Faires Beadle and Jamie Lynn Haskins Read a Preview Ever wonder what your neighbors of different faiths think -- and do -- in res...

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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 ...

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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 ar...

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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 a...

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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 unforgivabl...

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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 and Barbara Zelter Read a Preview "Powerful God-rooted words, yearning for equality and justice for all." –Sojourner...

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