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Amanda’s favorite books

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken Mañana by Justo L. González A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene H. Peterson The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body by Rubem Alves A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor Transparencies of Eternity by Rubem Alves
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
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The white Church considers power its birthright rather than its curse.
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