Spirituality & Social Justice
These are a few resources you might find helpful as a starting place. We will be adding to and updating these resources periodically; we hope you that will revisit this page. If you have additional spiritual and faith-based suggestions to add to the list, please contact Kate Holbrook in the Chaplain's Office.
Podcasts
CIIS Public Programs
(Contemplative)
The Courageous Life
with Rhonda V. Magee (Contemplative)
Ten Percent Happier
(Christian)
Joy + Revolution
(Christian, Black Church Tradition)
Pass the Mic
(Christian)
For the Life of the World (Yale Divinity School)
(Buddhist)
The Lion's Roar Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Now Age
(Contemplative)
Voices of Esalen
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Buddhist Sensei
Meditative Story
with Rev. angel Kyodo williams (Buddhist)
On Being
with Resmaa Menakem
On Being
with Patrisse Cullors + Robert Ross
On Being
with Rami Nashaibi and Lucas Johnson
On Being
(Buddhist)Mindful U Podcast (October 7, 2019)
United Church of Christ
with Rev. Jaymn Wooten
(Christian, Liberation Theology)Episode: James Cone, Theologian (Feb. 22, 2020)
Episode: James Baldwin (Feb. 19. 2020)
Episode: Black History: Malcom X (Feb. 17, 2020)
(Christian, Liberation Theology)James Cone (March 13, 2008)
Podcasts by people BIPOC, lifted up by Showing up for Social Justice-Faith:
(Christian)
Winona LaDuke
Dropping In
(Theology without Shame)
Podcasts about Practices and Meditations:
with Resmaa Menakem
On Being
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (Buddhist)
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (Buddhist)
Brooklyn Zen Center Audio
by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (Buddhist)
Brooklyn Audio Center Audio
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
(Buddhist, Contemplative)
The Awaken Podcast
Videos
Practices/Meditations: Teaching for Uncertain Times
Tricycle, Buddhist Magazine (2017)
(Wisdom Healing Qigong)
Grief and Healing of Loss- Personal and Collective
"The very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall St., and Austin Channing Brown, Author of Trinity's Theologian in Residence
Rhonda Magee
Rhonda Magee
Ruha Benjamin, Associate for Baha'i Studies, 2019
(Buddhist)
Rev. Zenjyu Earthlyn Manuel
Rhonda Magee
(Contemplative)
Rhonda Magee and Eldra Jackson III
(Buddhist)
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
(Christian, Liberation Theology)
Trinity Church Wall St.
(Christian, Liberation Theology)
Prof. James Cone Yale Divinity School April, 20 1997
(Buddhist)Rev. angel Kyodo williams
"Rev. angel Kyodo williams notes, 'Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.'"
(Christian)
(Christian, Catholic)
Fr. Brian N. Massingale, S.J. 2017
(Christian)
Union Theological Seminary
"In this film, filmmaker Anika Gibbons '13 takes a deeper look at the radical spirituality and scholarship within the lives of the founding mothers of Womanist theology and Womanist ethics. She focuses on their significance as African-American theology and history, and on the role played by Union in that founding."
(Christian, Catholic, Jesuit)
Fr. Bryan N. Massingale, S.J.
Yavilah McCoy Avodah
Yavilah McCoy
(Buddhist)Rev. angel Kyodo williams
(Christian)
Miguel De La Torre
National Movements
#poorpeoplescampaign
#blacklivesmatter
#nomoredeaths_nomasmuertas
Sanctuary Movement
#sacredresistance
#revlovproject
Mní Wičóni
#waterislife
Spiritual and Faith-Based Organizations on Social Justice
@thenapministry
:Working towards the realization of civil and human rights for all people.
Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Hindu Communities that are fearlessly working towards a more just and peaceful world, driven by the values of social justice at the heart of our faith.
(Christian)
(Christian, Womanist)
(Christian)
(Christian, Catholic, Jesuit)
(Christian, Protestant)
(Christian, Protestant)
(Christian, Evangelical Protestant)
(Interfaith, Peace)
Magazines
(Muslim, Black Muslim)
(Christian, Ecumenical Evangelical Progressive)
(Buddhist)
(Christian, Ecumencial)
(Christian, Catholic, Jesuit)
Articles
Kamhilah Majiled
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brian N. Massingale, SJ
Centers, Databases, & Archives
(USC)
(Georgetown)
Books
(Buddhist)
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Jasim Syedullah, Rod Owens
Rhonda V. Magee
(Buddhist)
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
(Buddhist)
Lama Rod Owens
(Buddhist)
Rev. Zenju Eathlyn Manuel
(Buddhist)
Breeshia Wade
Pamela Ayo Yettunde & Cheryl A Giles, eds.
Alex Kakuyoo
Austin Channing Brown
(Christian)
Lenny Duncan
(The Poor People's Campaign)
Rev. Dr. William Barber
Howard Thurman
(Christian, Liberation Theology)
James Cone
(Christian, Liberation Theology)
James Cone
(Christian, Liberation Theology)James Cone
Vincent W. Lloyd and Andrew Prevot, eds
(Christian)Kelly Brown Douglas
Alex Haley
Martin Luther King Jr.
Valerie Kaur (Sikh background)
(Native American)
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
(Womanist Theology, Christian)
Katie Geneva Cannon
Kazu Haga
Emilie M. Townes
Miguel A. De La Torre
(Christian, Liberation Theology)Gusatvo Gutiére
Pema Chödrön
(Buddhist)Pema Chödrön
(Native American, Christian)Randy Woodley
(Jewish)Rabbi Jill Jacobs
(Jewish)Rabbi Jill Jacobs
(Buddhist)
Thich Nhat Hanh
(Christian)
from the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School