The Deeper Dive recommendations come from a diverse array of facilitators, participants, and advisors. They’ve been curated by a curriculum review committee that will also periodically revise/update the lists. The lists are by no means comprehensive.

The materials are offered for the sake of individual use, and circles may also decide to create structured use. For example, participants could sign up to review one or more of the supplementary materials for a particular session, and then offer insights during that particular session’s circle meeting. Or, circles that have completed the curriculum may find they wish to reconvene and create their own curriculum from these suggested resources.

• Films and Videos
  • “Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story” (2021), film on YouTube
  • “Between the World and Me” (2020), HBO special by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • “13th” (2016), film by Ana Duvernay, available on Netflix
  • “Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan | Bryan Stevenson” (2020), PBS interview with Bryan Stevenson
  • “What Being Hispanic and Latinx mean in the United States” (2017), TEDx video
  • “The Unafraid” (2018), film about DACA students
  • “Bystander Intervention PSA” (May 2021), video on YouTube

• Books
  • “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing” (2005), Joy DeGruy
  • “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (2016), Ibram X. Kendi
  • “The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community” (2021), Stephanie Spellers (Chapters 1-4)
  • “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (2010), Michelle Alexander
  • “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts” (2017), Resmaa Menakem
  • “Episcopalians & Race” (2003), Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr., especially the epilogue
  • “My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation” (2012), edited by Jennifer Howe Peace, Or N. Rose, and Gregory Mobley. 
    • See chapter “The Prayer God Could Not Answer: A Métis-Aboriginal Encounter” by Wendy Peterson
  • “Ripe Fields: The Promise and Challenge of Latino Ministry” (2009), Juan Oliver
  • “The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism” (2019), Jemar Tisby
  • “Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God” (2015), Kelly Brown Douglas
  • “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” (2018), Austin Channing Brown
  • “Between the World and Me” (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates