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Feed Your TBR List During Our Holiday Sale!

December 12, 2024

By Christian Coleman | If last Christmas, you gave someone your heart, and the very next day, they gave it away, this year, to save yourself from tears, you’ll give it to your TBR list! ALL our books are 30% off through December 31 during our holiday sale! Read more →

Posted at 09:57 AM in A Cup of Water Under My Bed: 10th-Anniversary Edition, A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories, Activism, Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Disability, Don’t Wait, Embracing Hope, God's Country, House of Light, In This Place Together, Literature and the Arts, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, Revolution by Fire, Rolling Warrior, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Science and Medicine, The Blooming of a Lotus: Revised and Expanded | | Comments (0)

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Back-Up Reading for Those Tough Conversations at Family Holiday Gatherings

November 22, 2023

By Christian Coleman | When loved ones perch at the table together for holiday gatherings, it’s not just the star protein with fixings that gets served. Whether it’s on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other occasion for feel-good feasting in big company, those mashed potatoes and greens come with a side of divergent viewpoints on touchy, real-life subjects. Sometimes they’re served respectfully, sometimes with vitriol, but on many occasions, they stir up tough conversations, and the meals become so ideologically fraught that digestion seems out of the question. Read more →

Posted at 12:51 PM in A Master Class on Being Human, American Society, At Home in Exile, Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Christians Against Christianity, Dangerous Religious Ideas, Daring Democracy, Demystifying Shariah, Dirt Road Revival, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Her Body, Our Laws, History, In Jerusalem, In This Place Together, Let My People Vote, Now More Than Ever, On Repentance and Repair, Politics and Current Events, Producing Politics, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, Science and Medicine, The Drone Eats With Me, The Iron Cage, Trust Women, Two Billion Caliphs, We Need to Build, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, You Just Need to Lose Weight | | Comments (0)

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