Social Justice Book List

Provided by Sean Lansing from the Center for Ministry Development

Sean is the Director of the Young Neighbors Program and on staff at CMD, teaching social justice for the national certificate program in youth ministry.


Documents
* Everyday Christianity: To Hunger and Thirst for Justice
* Economic Justice for All
* A Place at the Table
* Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions (every youth minister should read this)

Books on Catholic Social Teaching
* A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching by Kevin McKenna; Ave Maria Press, 2002; (A good starter, describes the seven themes of CST and references documents, also very readable)
* Responses to 101 Questions on Catholic Social Teaching by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM;Paulist Press, 2001; (Another good starter, it is formatted question adn answer so can be awkward to use for reference, but it is a nice book. Kenneth Himes and his brother Michael are very well written in the CST field)
* Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action by Thomas Massaro, SJ

Other Good Resources:
* Netowrk Lobby - our cst lobby group in washington
* The Hunger Site
* Sojourners Magazine website. Sojourners is an ecumencial justice group, their magazine is great!
* Justice for Immigrants
* Jesus Before Christianity by Albert Nolan; Paulist Press; (A classic, it is a good book about Jesus and his social mission)