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Booklist (by category)

Social Justice

Chester, Tim, ed. Justice, Mercy and Humility: Integral Mission and the Poor. Carlisle, U.K: Paternoster Press, 2002.

Hughes, Dewi, and Matthew Bennett. God of the Poor: A Biblical Vision of God’s Present Rule. Carlisle, UK: OM Publishing, 1998.

Sanders, Cheryl J. Ministry at the Margins: The Prophetic Mission of Women, Youth and the Poor. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1997. 

Sider, Ronald J., ed. For They Shall Be Fed: Scripture Readings and Prayers for a Just World. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1997.

Sider, Ronald J. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1997.

“Stories”

Campolo, Tony. Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Our Cities. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.

Campolo, Bart. Kingdom Works. Ann Arbor: Servant Publications, 2001.

Charron, Happy Ness. Buried Treasure. Ed. Stephen F. White. Happy’s Good News Publisher, 2005.

Cruz, Nicky. Run Baby Run. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971.

Delbrel, Madeleine. We, the Ordinary People of the Streets. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000.

Ellis, Norman. My Parish is Revolting. Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing Company Limited, 1974.

Gariepy, Henry. Challenge & Response: A Documentary on Christianity In Action in the Inner City. Ohio: The Salvation Army, 1994

Grigg, Viv. Companion to the Poor. Sydney: Albatross Books, 1984.

Harris, John D. The Junkie Priest. New York: Pocket Books, 1972.

Hester, John. Soho is My Parish. London: Lutterworth Press, 1970.

Kenrick, Bruce. Come Out the Wilderness. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 1962.

Lupton, Robert D. Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989.

Noffs, Ted. The Wayside Chapel. London: Fontana Books, 1969.

Patterson, George N. God’s Fool. London: Faber & Faber, 1956.

Pullinger, Jackie and Andrew Quicke. Chasing the Dragon. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980.

Smith, Gary. Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002.

Wangerin Jr., Walter. Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace. San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

Wilkerson, David. The Cross and the Switchblade. Old Tappan, NJ: Spire Books, 1963.

Street-Involved

Delbrel, Madeleine. We, the Ordinary People of the Streets. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000.

Dorrell, Jimmy. Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities about Today’s Church That We Don’t Want to See. Birmingham: New Hope Publishers, 2006.  

Grant, George. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America. Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1986.

Harris, John D. The Junkie Priest. New York: Pocket Books, 1972.

Saunders, Stanley P. and Charles L. Campbell. The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000.

Smith, Gary. Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002.

Torrey, E. Fuller. Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

The City

Baird, William. The Corinthian Church—A Biblical Approach to Urban Culture. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964.

Bakke, Ray. The Urban Christian: Effective Ministry in Today’s Urban World. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1987.

Bakke, Ray. A Theology as Big as the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1997.

Campolo, Tony. Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Our Cities. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.

Campolo, Bart. Kingdom Works. Ann Arbor: Servant Publications, 2001.

Claerbaut, David. Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids: The Zondervan Corporation, 1983.

Conn, Harvie. A Clarified Vision for Urban Mission: Dispelling the Urban Stereotypes. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1987.

Conn, Harvie and Manuel Ortiz. Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City and the People of God. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2001.

Ellis, Norman. My Parish is Revolting. Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing Company Limited, 1974.

Ellison, Craig, ed. The Urban Mission. Grand Rapids: William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974.

Elliston, Edgar J. and J. Timothy Kauffman. Developing Leaders for Urban Ministries. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2000.

Frenchak, David and Sharrel Keyes. Metro-Ministry: Ways and Means for the Urban Church. Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1979. 

Gariepy, Henry. Challenge & Response: A Documentary on Christianity In Action in the Inner City. Ohio: The Salvation Army, 1994

Gornik, Mark R. To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

Grigg, Viv. Companion to the Poor. Sydney: Albatross Books, 1984.

Grigg, Viv. Cry of the Urban Poor. Monrovia, California: MARC, 1992.

Harper, Nile. Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999.

Hiebert, Paul G. and Eloise Hiebert Meneses. Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant and Urban Societies. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995.

Joslin, Roy. Urban Harvest. Welwyn, U.K.: Evangelical Press, 1982.

Kenrick, Bruce. Come Out the Wilderness. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 1962.

Kyle, John E, ed. Urban Mission: God’s Concern for the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1998. 

Linthicum, Robert C. City of God, City of Satan: A Biblical Theology of the Urban Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991. 

Lupton, Robert D. Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989.

Lupton, Robert D. Renewing the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2005. 

Lupton, Robert. And You Call Yourself a Christian: Toward Responsible Charity. Chicago: Christian Community Development Association, 2006.

McKinney, George. Cross the Line: Reclaiming the Inner City for God. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers, 1997.

Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 

Nunes, John. Voices From the City: Issues and Images in Urban Preaching. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999. 

Paul, Greg. God in the Alley. USA: Shaw Books, 2004. 

Perkins, John M. Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993.

Perkins, John M, ed. Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing it Together and Doing it Right. Grand Rapids; Baker Books, 1995. 

Saunders, Stanley P. and Charles L. Campbell. The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000.

Schaeffer, Francis A. Death in the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1976.

Van Houten, Mark E. God’s Inner-City Address: Crossing the Boundaries. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.

Villafane, Eldin, Bruce W. Jackson, Robert A. Evans and Alice Frazer Evans. Transforming the City: Reframing Education for Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

White, Randy. Encounter God in the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2006.

Winter, Gibson. The Suburban Captivity of the Churches. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.

Multicultural

Breckenridge, James and Lillian Breckenridge. What Color is Your God? Multicultural Education in the Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995.

Dorrell, Jimmy. Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities about Today’s Church That We Don’t Want to See. Birmingham: New Hope Publishers, 2006.  

Harris, Paula and Doug Schaupp. Being White: Finding our Place in a Multiethnic World. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2004.

Hiebert, Paul G. and Eloise Hiebert Meneses. Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant and Urban Societies. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995.

Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley and George E. “Tink” Tinker. A Native American Theology. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001.

Lane, Patty. A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2002.

McKinney, George. Cross the Line: Reclaiming the Inner City for God. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers, 1997.

Nunes, John. Voices From the City: Issues and Images in Urban Preaching. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1999.

Perkins, John. Let Justice Roll Down. Ventura, California: Gospel Light Publications, 1976.

Rhodes, Stephen A. Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1998.

Sanneh, Lamin. Whose Religion is Christianity? Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003.

Seim, Brian. Canada’s New Harvest: Helping Churches Touch Newcomers, 2nd edition. Scarborough: SIM Canada, 1999.

Yancey, George. One Body, One Spirit. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003.

Community Development

Bilezikian, Gilbert. Community 101: Reclaiming the Local Church as Community of Oneness. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997.

Campolo, Anthony. Ideas for Social Action. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983.

Campolo, Tony. Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Our Cities. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.

Conn, Harvie and Manuel Ortiz. Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City and the People of God. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2001.

Dorrell, Jimmy. Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities about Today’s Church That We Don’t Want to See. Birmingham: New Hope Publishers, 2006.  

Grant, George. Bringing in the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty into Productivity. Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1988.

Harper, Nile. Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999.

Hiebert, Paul G. and Eloise Hiebert Meneses. Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant and Urban Societies. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995.

Jacobsen, Dennis A. Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.

Lupton, Robert D. Renewing the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2005. 

Lupton, Robert. And You Call Yourself a Christian: Toward Responsible Charity. Chicago: Christian Community Development Association, 2006.

Mitchell, Marva. It Takes a Church to Raise a Village. Shippensburg, PA: Treasure House, 2001.

Needham, Phil. Community In Mission: A Salvationist Ecclesiology. London: The General of the Salvation Army, 1987.

Perkins, John. Let Justice Roll Down. Ventura, California: Gospel Light Publications, 1976.

Perkins, John M. Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993.

Perkins, John M, ed. Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing it Together and Doing it Right. Grand Rapids; Baker Books, 1995. 

Roddick, Anita. Take it Personally. Berkeley: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. 

Villafane, Eldin, Bruce W. Jackson, Robert A. Evans and Alice Frazer Evans. Transforming the City: Reframing Education for Urban Ministry. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.

White, Randy. Encounter God in the City. Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2006.

York, Geoffrey. The Dispossessed: Life and Death in Native Canada. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989.

Youth

Campolo, Anthony. Ideas for Social Action. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983.

Campolo, Bart. Kingdom Works. Ann Arbor: Servant Publications, 2001.

Sanders, Cheryl J. Ministry at the Margins: The Prophetic Mission of Women, Youth and the Poor. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1997.

Christian Lifestyle

Nouwen, Henri J.M, Donald P. McNeill and Douglas A. Morrison.

Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life. New York: Image Books, 1983.