Urban Awareness

Resources 

    Books Focused on People and Poverty Ministry:

  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Ruby K. Payne

  • The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Rosaria Butterfield

  • When Helping Hurts: Alleviate Poverty without hurting the poor - Steve Corbett

  • Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, and How to Reverse it - Robert D. Lupton

  • Becoming Whole: Why The Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream - Brian Fikkert & Kelly Kapic

  • Welcome to Dinner Church - Verion Fosner

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson

  • This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home - Lauren Sandler

    Other Books: 

  • Upside-Down Spirituality - Chad Bird

  • The Cure: What if God Isn’t Who you Think He is and Neither Are You? - BillThrall, Bruce McNicol, John Lynch

  • You’re Not Crazy - Ray Ortlund & Sam Allberry

  • Liturgy of the Ordinary - Trish Harrison Warren 

  • Tattoos on the Heart - Gregory Boyle (*Spice)

  • Barking to the Choir - Gregory Boyle (*Spice)

  • The Whole Language - Gregory Boyle (*Spice) 

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