Books

We have curated the following list of books to be made available in your Josephite church’s Lending Libraries. Feel free to submit your suggestions of helpful and uplifting books that are centered around empowerment, financial literacy, and sustainability.

Lending Libraries will be made available for churches participating in our programming. If your church is interested in adding a Lending Library, please contact us here.

  • Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights

    Rosetta E. Ross

    The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Rosetta Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of Black women in the movement and its moral import.

  • The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living

    Hillary L. PhD McBride

    Learn how your body can also be your teacher. Experience this gentle and powerful voice as it calls us back home to ourselves.

  • The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

    Casper ter Kuile

    This book explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices – such as yoga, reading, and walking the dog – into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose.

  • You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

    Jesse Mecham

    A guide based on the tenets of the award-winning financial platform, "You Need a Budget," argues that a well-planned budget does not involve deprivation and counsels readers on how to prioritize financial goals, reduce stress through strategic cash flow allocations, and meet the challenges of unplanned expenses.

  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich

    Ramit Sethi

    This book will show you:

    -How to crush your debt and student loans faster than you thought possible

    -How to set up no-fee, high-interest bank accounts that won’t gouge you for every penny

    -How you can automate your finances so your money goes exactly where you want it to

    -How to talk your way out of late fees (with word-for-word scripts)

    -How to save hundreds or even thousands per month (and still buy what you love)

    -A set-it-and-forget-it investment strategy that’s dead simple and beats financial advisors at their own game

    -How to handle buying a car or a house, paying for a wedding, having kids, and other big expenses – stress free

    -The exact words to use to negotiate a big raise at work.

  • The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary

    Clark Strand and Perdita Finn

    Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path – available to everyone, religious or not – that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.

  • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

    Cole Arthur Riley

    In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation.

  • Call Us What We Carry

    Amanda Gorman

    Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

  • Something, Someday

    Amanda Gorman

    Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. With intimate and inspiring text and powerfully stunning illustrations, Something, Someday reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact.