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• “How can I get involved?” – A fine question! Engage any of our resources below, sign up for our email list, or reach out to Sam Heath (samh@ejusa.org), the manager of the EJUSA Evangelical Network, with any questions.
• What does the Evangelical Network mean by ‘evangelical’?
• A Theology of Our Platform at the EJUSA Evangelical Network (haga clic aquí para la versión en español)
• The Church & Justice: A Tool for Churches – This is a guide for churches to engage and learn how to see and meet the justice needs in your community (haga clic aquí para la versión en español)
• Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row edited by Lynden Harris
  • Question Guide for Church Small Groups
  • Interview with Lynden Harris on the book’s origins and impact
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and A Road to Repair by Danielle Sered
• Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us by Shane Claiborne
• Death Penalty Sundays – The EJUSA Evangelical Network has developed packets of materials designed for churches interested in hosting events, services, or speakers related to faithfully reflecting on the death penalty. These can be for churches in any state, but we have so far developed state-specific materials for Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

FOR A DEEPER DIVE – SOME BOOKS

• God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America by Aaron Griffith
• Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation by Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, and Michelle Higgins
• Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change by Christina Edmondson & Chad Brennan
• Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes by James Mumford
• Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley
• White Lies: Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial System That Divides Us by Daniel Hill
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Duke L. Kwon & Gregory Thompson
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy Keller

FOR A DEEPER DIVE – SOME ARTICLES

• “An Unexpected Conversation with Civil Rights Activist John M. Perkins” by Sam Heath
• “Evangelical Activists Push for Solitary Confinement Reform” in Christianity Today, featuring the EJUSA Evangelical Network
• “While We Were Still Criminals, Christ Died for Us” by Ryan Schellenberg
• Justice and Race article series by Timothy Keller
• “The Chicken Came First” by Thabiti Anyabwile
• “Racial Reconciliation Is Essential to Discipleship” by Won Kim
• “Walking While Black” by Garnette Cadogan
• Justice for Julius Clemency Campaign Case Study

• EJUSA Evangelical Network’s In the Movement podcast
• Truth’s Table podcast
• Pass the Mic podcast
• Seeing White podcast
• The Three Colors of Complicity (talk by Jemar Tisby)
• Interview with Austin Channing Brown, author of I’m Still Here

• Just Mercy (discussion guide)
• EJUSA Evangelical Network’s In the Movement videos
• HBO documentary True Justice on EJI’s Bryan Stevenson
• Fox and Rob Richardson’s documentary of two decades of incarceration and the hope that sustained them
• Race and Place in Charlottesville – Love Thy Neighbor
• Segregated by Design documentary, plus An interview with its creator
• The Danger of a Single Story TED Talk
• It Could Happen to You – The story of two wrongful death sentences