- Tikkun Online: A bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society http://www.tikkun.org/ Recommended by Richard Ruane
- Mother Jones Online http://nlln.org/motherjones.html Recommended by Richard Ruane
- Sojourners Online http://www.sojourners.com/sojourners/home.html Recommended by Richard Ruane and Geoff Curtiss
- Voices from the Catholic Worker Phila., Temple U., 1993 BX810.C393V65 1993 (DANA) Recommended by Richard Ruane
Commentaries
- Barry Seiler on Above the River
He exposed me to the depth of compassion we must have for the outcasts of the world. Beautiful stuff!
- Esther Walter on Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in
America
He looks at the way in which we were settled by immigrants from various parts of Britain with various approaches to law, family, honor, justice, etc., and how those cultures have continued over 300 years. It clarified my understanding of retributive justice - a belief that is based on tribalism and has a great many social consequences. The book is interesting, well written and not difficult to read, although not short.
- Mary Donovan on An American Dilemma: The Condensed version known at
The Negro in America.
Is still for me one of the most powerful calls for social justice I ever experienced
- Jackie O'Sullivan on Anatomy of Prejudices
Although not 'Diversity, 101,' this volume might be a good research for motivated students, or those interested in a project. Examines how misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism play on emotions and vulnerabilities, real and perceived. A challenging book, very dense, from a psycho-social perspective.
- David Elliot on And Also With You
It traces Bishop Duncan Gray and his struggle in Mississippi and the south for social justice.
- Brian Kelly & Sue Bolden on Autobiographies / Frederick
Douglass
A short but very gripping and moving work that clearly exposes the injustice of slavery (Brian Kelly)
- Jacquelyn O'Sullivan on Casting Stones: prostitution and liberation
in Asia and the United States
This is a powerful book about the international sex trade. Very compelling and challenging. Might be good as recommended supplimental reading. I will be looking forward to this bibliography, which might be of assistance to those charged with planning Foundations.
- John S. Moving on Conduct Unbecoming
Randy Shilts talks about social justice on many levels. It has great emotive power. It makes its case over and over -- its real and contemporary.
- Paul Gibson on Deutero and Trito Isaiah (chapters 40-66)
I suggest that that document may have done more to shape western ideals of justice and hope for universal harmony of people and nature than any other single piece of literature and may, through its dissemination by Christian missions and schools, have influenced the highest ideals of the Chinese communist revolution as well. It embraces hope for the alienated (40), a vision of return of exiles to what they had lost (43, 49), a sense that the suffering of the oppressed finds meaning in the recovery of wholeness by all (53), a theology of justice as the ultimate religion (58), a doctrine of judgement on warmongering and exploitation (59), a vision of a new age (61) and a new creation (65.17-25), with global implications (56.1-8) -- to touch its headings only briefly.
- Daphne McClellan on Family Values: A Lesbian Mother's Fight for Her
Son
From the jacket: 'Here, alongside accounts of shopping for Pampers and improvising costumes for a nursery-school Halloween party, are bulletins from a struggle that pits outrageous acts of civil disobedience against gay-bashing and homophobic films like Basic Instinct.
- Barbara Foley and Barry Seiler on Grapes of Wrath
I was 15-16 and it shook the foundations of my mid-class urban complacency. (Barry Seiler). Has surprising lasting power. (Barbara Foley)
- Tonda Smith on Holy, the Firm
Worth a read but not the depth of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Adrienne Dillon on Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women,
Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Highlights the problem of women of color, who experience marginalization in both their racial and their gender identity.
- George F. Mackey on Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South
Africa in the Apartheid Years
This is an impressive tome. It fills in a lot of the history of our own civil rights movement for those too young to have remembered it.
- Jacquelyn O'Sullivan on Makes Me Wanna Holler
This is an amazing book, which *demands* careful, open process. Written in language which is easy to read, but holding content which is deeply disturbing. It was assigned to the one class required of EDS students, Foundations, which is a generally ham-fisted approach to consciouness-raising around diversity issues. This book, along with _Black Ice_, redeemed the class.
- Cynthia Ann Gilliatt & Tonda Smith on Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
My all-time favorite nonfiction nomination may not fit into a peace and justice category. (Tonda Smith)
- Eugene Kohlbecker on Savage Inequalities
About the gross inequities in public funded elementary education in the U.S. I read this disturbing book years ago, and it's terrible images remain fixed in my mind.
- Richard Ruane & Geoff Curtiss on Sojourners Online
Accessible, articulate, well-written and deal with a wide variety of issues. (Ruane)
- Paul Gibson on The Great Road: Biography of Chu Teh, Founder of
the Red Army
My copy was given to me by the great Bishop Hall of Hong Kong. (Hall himself was deeply influenced by F.D. Maurice and came to issues of justice from that perspective.)
- John Calabrese & Paul Gibson on The Long Loneliness
The Catholic Worker movement, which she led, embraced the vision of a new social order, together with pacificism, and commitment to agrarian reform. The hospitality houses and farms they opened were intended to prepare for and anticipate the "utopia" they sought
- Glenda DeKruif on The Spook Who Sat by the Door
A story about a black man who was hired (by the FBI I believe) to be basically a show piece but had no real responsibilities.
- Richard Ruane on Ways of Seeing
It gives a very straight-forward and accessible examination of painting, nudity, and advertising from the perspective of class and gender justice issues (rape, possession, ownership)
- Glenda DeKruif on Who should play God? : The artificial creation of
life and what it means for the future of the human race
It deals with cloning, dna research etc. Although the author is obviously anti His book raises a lot of questions that I found soul searching.
- The Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns.
- Louie Crew's Anglican pages.
- Louie Crew's home page.
- Send mail to: lcrew@newark.rutgers.edu
Please sign my guestbook and
view it.
My site has been accessed
Statistics courtesy of
WebCounter.
This page was created with the help of HTM
Led Pro