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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.  

  • 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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  • Colors of Hope: A Devotional Journal from LGBTQ+ Christians
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    Colors of Hope: A Devotional Journal from LGBTQ+ Christians

    edited by Melissa Guthrie Colors of Hope draws upon the iconic Pride flag and raises a call to embody our beliefs. Using Gilbert Baker’s original ...

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

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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 and Carrie Doehring Read a Preview How do you care for veterans suffering from the moral trauma of war? Military moral injury d...

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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 wron...

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  • Better: Waking Up to Who We Could Be
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    Better: Waking Up to Who We Could Be

    by Melvin Bray Foreword by Brittney Cooper Read a Preview “Lord have mercy—I needed BETTER.” ―Glennon Doyle, NYT bestselling author of Untamed ...

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  • Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family, and Church
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    Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family, and Church

    by Sarah Griffith Lund LOOK INSIDE "A brave and beautiful memoir that will open up conversations about some of the most neglected, shadowy corners...

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  • Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers
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    Staying Awake: The Gospel for Changemakers

    by Tyler Sit READ A PREVIEW Also available at: Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million “An eloquent debut...Sit’s work sizzles wi...

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  • Fear Not: Living Grace and Truth in a Frightened World
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    Fear Not: Living Grace and Truth in a Frightened World

    By Eric H.F. Law Read a Preview Discover how to break free of fear and live courageously in anxious times. We’re more afraid than ever right now....

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  • The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community
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    The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community

    By Eric H.F. Law From the author of the best-selling Holy Currencies series, Eric H. F. Law, this groundbreaking work explores how certain culture...

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  • Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World
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    Organizing Church: Grassroots Practices for Embodying Change in Your Congregation, Your Community, and Our World

    by Tim Conder and Dan Rhodes Book Preview The 21st century is the age of community organizing, from rallies in the streets to online movements for...

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  • The Word at the Crossings: Living the Good News in a Multicontextual Community
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    The Word at the Crossings: Living the Good News in a Multicontextual Community

    by Eric H.F. Law BOOK PREVIEW Eric Law believes that we are called by God to actively seek encounters with people who are different from us becaus...

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  • Blessed Minds: Breaking the Silence about Neurodiversity
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    Blessed Minds: Breaking the Silence about Neurodiversity

    by Sarah Griffith Lund Download a sample For your discussion group: Download the Blessed Minds Study Guide in PDF Download the Blessed Minds Stud...

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  • When Kids Ask Hard Questions, Volume 2: More Faith-Filled Responses for Tough Topics
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    When Kids Ask Hard Questions, Volume 2: More Faith-Filled Responses for Tough Topics

    edited by Bromleigh McCleneghan and Karen Ware Jackson LOOK INSIDE Now available! Also ORDER here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org | Bo...

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  • Water in the Desert: Progressive Christianity for the Spiritually Thirsty
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    Water in the Desert: Progressive Christianity for the Spiritually Thirsty

    by Jim Burklo Read a Sample Download the study guide Find your way to the water. A soulful path for those who have outgrown dogma. You are parched...

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  • Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice
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    Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice

    by David Phillips Hansen BOOK PREVIEW The Native American drive for self-governance is the most important civil rights struggle of our time — a st...

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  • Blessed Youth: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness with Children and Teens
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    Blessed Youth: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness with Children and Teens

    By Sarah Griffith Lund Also available: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop.org | Books-A-Million Download the Blessed Youth Study Guide “Thank...

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