New and Noteworthy

Four September culture recommendations from our editors
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At the Core

Director Josh Fox traveled to 12 countries on six continents to explore what humanity holds close in the face of climate change. The result is the sobering and inspiring documentary How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change. howtoletgomovie.com

Do Justice

Soong-Chan Rah and Gary VanderPol explore post-World War II motivators to social concern in Return to Justice: Six Movements That Reignited Our Contemporary Evangelical Conscience. From John Perkins’ life story to the power of globalized Christianity, history that empowers. Brazos Press

Not-So-Great Divides

In Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church, theological ethicist Julie Hanlon Rubio proposes ways Catholics from across the political spectrum can work together on contentious issues. Georgetown University Press

A Place to Begin

Race in a Post-Obama America: The Church Responds is a primer on racism and its contemporary manifestations that can serve as a starting point for congregations discerning a positive way forward. Multiple contributors, edited by David Maxwell, foreword by Otis Moss III. WJK

This appears in the September/October 2016 issue of Sojourners