For the Person who Wants to Read the Gospel of Luke (Free Download)
​​Communal (Digital) Reading of Luke (Fuller) → Fuller Seminary’s Communal Devotional and Guide of Reading through the Gospel of Luke. Each reading takes less than 20 minutes, and has accompanying short commentary, reflection questions and is encouraged to practice WITH others. 

For the One who Wants to Love Immigrant Neighbors Well
Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in our Christian Response to Immigration by Karen González → González draws from the Bible and her own experiences as a Guatemalan immigrant to examine why the traditional approach to immigration ministries and activism is at best incomplete and at worst harmful. By advocating for putting immigrants in the center of the conversation, González helps readers grow in discipleship and recognize themselves in their immigrant neighbors.

For the One who is Hungry for Spiritual Practices
A Different Kind of Fast: Feeding Our True Hungers in Lent by Christine Valters Paintner (Author), Kreg Yingst (Illustrator) → Drawing on the Desert Fathers and Mothers, this offers practical contemplative practices like lectio divina, breath prayer, visio divina, meditation with desert wisdom, contemplative walks, and creative rituals. As we fast from rushing, planning, being strong, holding it all together, seeking certainty, and control, we can softly reorient ourselves toward that which nourishes and fulfills us.

For the One Who Wants to Learn from Biblical Women and Black Women
A Cloud of Women: The Powerful Connection between Black Women and Women of the Bible by ECC Pastor Georgia A. Hill and Diane Proctor Reeder (Author) → Elevates dozens of biblical women, pointing out parallels between their life experiences and the lives of contemporary and historical Black women. 

For the One Who Wants to Meditate on the Spirituals
Were You There? Lenten Reflection on the Spirituals by Luke A. Powery → African American Spirituals provide profound insights into the human condition and Christian life. This book looks at Spirituals as they confront the mystery of Christ's atoning death and victory over the grave. Each selection includes the lyrics of the spiritual, a reflection about it, a Scripture, and a brief prayer.

Kids
The Peace Storybook Bible
The Peace Table is a comprehensive family storybook Bible to love Jesus, grow in faith, and become peacemakers who change the world! There’s biblically faithful retellings of 140 stories from Scripture, stunning, diverse artwork,  prayer prompts, questions, and action ideas to guide family reflection, wonder, and conversation. 

Youth
Only Light Can Do That: 60 Days of MLK – Devotions for Kids
Through Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and Bible verses, kids can reflect on Scripture, wisdom from Dr King, and be inspired to live out their Christian faith towards justice and love.

For the “Back-To-The-Basics” Bible Reader ($5 at the Book Table)

Immerse: Messiah or The Books of the Bible New Testament → The New Testament organized in chronological order without verses. Has Bible reading plans, videos and guides.

For the One Who Needs to a Traditional Lenten Devotional ($5 at the Book Table)

Leaning In, Letting Go: A Lenten Devotional by Nicole Massie Martin → Brief Daily devotional with a short scripture, reflection and prayer focused on leaning into God and letting go of unnecessary burdens. Daily reflections and prayers invite us to lean into God's grace and let go of our own agendas and practices that hold us back from the abundant life God calls us to enjoy and share with the world.

For the One Who Wants to Read Scripture with Others 

Fuller's Communal Reading of Scripture (Free Download)

Fuller Seminary put together a Communal Reading of Scripture, also known as the Public Reading of Scripture, with weekly readings from the Gospel of Luke. Each reading takes less than 20 minutes, and each week's reading has accompanying commentary and reflection questions and is encouraged to practice WITH others. 

For the One Who Needs TLC (Purchase on your own)

Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves by Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes → As a clinical psychologist, pastor, and activist, Dr. Chanequa exercises self-care as a spiritual discipline with daily reflections and practices that include scripture, reflection and daily practice.

For the One Who Wants Healing, Poetry and Breath Prayers Centering the Black interior world (Purchase on your own)

Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human → Cole Arthur Riley For anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for what might be. She brings together prayers, letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals.

For the One For the One Who Needs a Liberative, Decolonizing Perspective That’s Rooted in Scripture (Purchase on your own)

Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture (Daily Bible Devotions on Belonging to God, the Earth, & One Another) by Kat Armas → Cuban American writer Kat Armas draws from personal narrative and Scripture, Armas highlights biblical passages that point toward decolonized themes centered on creation, wisdom, spirit, the body, and the feminine.

For the One Wanting to Reflect Deeper on the Crucifixion, Suffering, Black History, and Black Spirituality ($10 at the Book Table)

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone → A landmark award-winning book on the conversation of race and religion in America on the history of lynching, the Crucifixion of Christ, Black liberation, and the white evangelical church.

For Kids and Youth

The Peace Storybook Bible

The Peace Table is a comprehensive family storybook Bible to love Jesus, grow in faith, and become peacemakers who change the world! There’s biblically faithful retellings of 140 stories from Scripture, stunning, diverse artwork,  prayer prompts, questions, and action ideas to guide family reflection, wonder, and conversation. 

Only Light Can Do That: 60 Days of MLK – Devotions for Kids 

Through Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s words and Bible verses, kids can reflect on Scripture, wisdom from Dr King, and be inspired to live out their Christian faith towards justice and love.