Vanessa Stricker

Check out some of my favorite books!

Where the Crawdads Sing
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a New Foreword and Brand-New Tools
Start with Hello: (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors)
Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace
Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
Shalom Sistas: Living Wholeheartedly in a Brokenhearted World
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
Anxious People
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
A Letter to My Congregation, Second Edition: An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender into the co
Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church's Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality
Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBTQ Christians with Response to Critics
Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Updated and Expanded)
Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been
Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships
Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
I'm Still Here (Adapted for Young Readers): Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me
How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/O Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
The Making of Asian America: A History
How to Be an Antiracist
Antiracist Baby Board Book
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores