Resources

Check out some of the resources we’re curating…

Adaptive Leadership

• Articles
  • How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going
  • Keep Calm and Drop the Rope
  • Leading in Our Uncertain Times: Be Real – Not a Hero
  • 7 Ways to Inspire Confidence While Saying “I Don’t Know”
  • Serving as a denominational Bishop in a post-denominational culture
  • Practices for Coaxing Order out of Chaos
  • Traditioned Innovation – Multiple Resources from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
• Helpful Organizations
  • Faith and Leadership
  • Congregational Consulting Group
  • Praxis: The Redemptive Edge
  • The Faith+Leader
• Podcasts
  • Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization is Now a Startup (Andy Crouch, The Redemptive Edge on COVID-19 Leadership)

COVID-19

• Leadership
  • Prepare now for Post-Pandemic Ministry
  • When a Congregation Goes Virtual
  • Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis
  • Germany to set out rules for religious services including ban on singing
• Communication Tools
  • Free Group-Texting Resource: Remind.com
  • Recorded voice calls: One Call Now
  • Zoom
  • Google Hangouts Meet

• Spiritual Tools
  • CommonPrayer.net
  • Pray-As-You-Go

Human Sexuality

• Out of the Church’s Closet: Hope for the Evangelical Covenant Church and Sexual Minorities by Amanda Olson
• Tony and Peggy Campolo – Gay Debate – a ten minute video where husband and wife walk hand in hand without seeing eye to eye.
• Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations about Sexuality and Spirituality by Debra Hirsch (IVP) – a holistic, biblical vision of sex and gender that honors God and offers good news to the world; according to Pastor Mandy some parts are shocking, but it will make you think.
• Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views by Robert Gagnon and Dan Via (Augsburg) – the most concise, yet thorough biblical study of the traditional and non-traditional views Pastor Mandy has found. A must read!
• The End of Sexual Identity by Janell Williams unpacks sexuality from an anthropological and Christian perspective. Williams says sex is too important to define who we are.
• Changing Our Mind by David Gushee is a helpful exploration of homosexuality and Christianity from an Evangelical Christian ethicist.
• Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality by Wesley Hill is the story of one gay Christian’s wrestling with and embrace of chastity.
• Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gay-vs.-Christian Debate by Justin Lee is one gay Christian’s memoir and call for people on both sides of the debate to respect, learn from, and love one another.
• Tony Campolo: For the Record
• How to Talk about Homosexuality- 6 Things Every Straight Christian Should Know
• The Liturgists – LGBTQ (podcast)

Immigration

• Displaced. 6 min video by Immigrant Connection.
• Visit the ECC’s immigration resource page for ways to learn, engage and pray. 
• ICwelcome.org
• Evangelical Immigration Roundtable – for good biblical resources

Race

• Books
  • ECC’s Black History Reading List by Dominique Gilliard
  • White Awake by Daniel Hill and his new book White Lies, coming out soon
  • Road to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter-McNeil 
  • White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
  • Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier (easy read but profound)
  • Cross-cultural Conflict by Duane Elmer
  • They Don’t Cry if We Die by Reyes
  • Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside
  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
  • Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
  • Reconstructing the Gospel by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
  • Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James Loewen
  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
  • The New Jim Crow-Alexander
  • Just Mercy-Stevenson
  • Tears We Cannot Stop-Dyson
  • Between the World and Me-Coates
  • The Case for Reparations-Coates-article in The Atlantic Monthly June 2014
  • The Myth of Equality-Wytsma
  • Sundown Towns-Loewen
  • Rethinking Incarceration-Gilliard
  • The Hidden Wound-Berry
  • The Warmth of Other Suns-Wilkerson
  • Slavery By Another Name-Blackmon
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Book Review: Can we Handle the truth about racism and the church?

• Video Clips
  • “What Kind of Asian Are You?” 
  • “Behind the Walls.” 
  • “The Danger of the Single Story.”
  • “What I am Learning from My White Grandchildren – truths about race.” 
  • “Color Blind or Color Brave?” 
  • Debby Irving 
  • Dr. Robin DiAngelo 
  • Bryan Stevenson 
    • We Need to Talk about Injustice
    • Doing the Uncomfortable
  • Daniel Hill – CNN interview he refers to in book White Awake 
  • BBC’s History of Scientific Racism 
  • America’s Big White Secret 
  • James Baldwin and William Buckley at the Cambridge Union 
  • Newsday Report: Discrimination in Realty (Long Island) 

• Podcasts
  • Seeing White by Scene On Radio

• Movies
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • I am Not Your Negro
  • Slavery By Another Name
  • Birth of a Nation (2016)
  • Mudbound
  • Hidden Figures
  • Loving
  • Lion
  • Fences
  • Moonlight
  • Thirteenth
  • Race
  • 42
  • 10,000 Black Men Named George
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  • Harriet
  • Just Mercy
  • Best of Enemies
  • Crash
  • Embodied Solidarity PBS
• Other Resources
  • Intercultural Development Inventory – The IDI is a tool that provides a mirror for understanding our own intercultural journey and practical next steps to help us move forward in faithfulness. 
  • Ladder of Empowerment
  • Oral vs. Print Cultures
  • Consider using the Repentance Project’s: An American Lent.
  • 64 Things White People can do for Racial Justice