Social Issues

Take a look at books, posts, and films that address social issues

Books

Fiction

Go to Vicky's Victory: Malt Shop Milestones #1 book page Go to Sisters in Arms book review Go to Let Us March On book review Go to Take My Hand book review

Go to They Can't Take Your Name: A Wrongful Conviction #1 book review Go to Audacity book review Go to Ida, in Love and in Trouble book review Go to So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix book review

Go to The Comeback book review Go to The Radio Hour book review Go to Small Things Like These book review Go to We Were Real: Heartstrings #1 book page

Go to New Kid book review Go to The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man book review Go to Meals from Mars: A Parable of Prejudice and Providence book review
Go to Return to the City book review Go to Monster book review

Picture Books

Go to Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book review Go to For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World book review

Nonfiction

Go to Dusty Rugs in the Sanctuary: An Outcry Against Abuse in Christian Culture book page Go to She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up book review Go to Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church book review Go to Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us book review

Go to Crowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History book review Go to A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History book review Go to The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege book review Go to Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration book review

Go to The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love, and Truth book review Go to White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege book review Go to The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America book review Go to Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption book review

Go to You Have the Right to Remain Innocent book review Go to The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging book review Go to My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church book review

Posts

Malt Shop Fiction and American Diversity

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Race Films and Malt Shop Milestones

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Dauntless: Bringing an Uncommon Hero to Fiction

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Judging Books, Harming Ourselves

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The Significance of Faces on Fiction Book Covers

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Addressing Spiritual Abuse through Fiction

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Forgiving “Bad Boys” in Romantic Christian Fiction?

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“Our Jesus Doesn’t Want You Here.”
When Christian Fiction is Unwelcoming

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Don’t Play Down People’s “Church Hurt”

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Films

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Go to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner film review

A Raisin in the Sun

Go to A Raisin in the Sun film review

Something the Lord Made

Go to Something the Lord Made film review

Meet Author and Book Lover Nadine C. Keels