Recommendations from Shaw Center Lecturers

Our wonderful guest lectures often share recommended readings, documentaries, or resources for further learning on their topics. Here are some of their recommendations.

Spring 2021 Lecturer Resources

Kasey Kelly on Domestic Violence Can Happen to Anyone

• List of resources for survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault in Massachusetts

Fall 2020 Lecturer Resources

Rev. Tom Hermans-Webster on Ecological Ecclesiology: God, Creation, Church

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Women, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology, Marjorie Suchocki

• Life Abundant, Sallie McFague
• 
Sisters of Dust Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation, Karen Baker-Fletcher

• Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective, Karen Baker-Fletcher
• Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths, Melanie Harris

• Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, Rita Nakashima-Brock & Rebecca Ann Parker

Daniel Montañez on Mygration Stories: Exploring God’s Heart Through Immigration Stories

• The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong, Karen Gonźalez
• The Bible and Borders, M. Daniel Carrol R.
• Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother, Sonia Nazario
• Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity, Robert Chao Romero
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez

Camille Obata on Japanese American Internment and the “Model Minority” Myth

• Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 available to view through the STH Library
• Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story