It's important to learn about the 1960s civil rights movement from people who lived it and led it. In San Diego, one person is Harold K. Brown. Mr. Brown has a long history as a volunteer civil rights and community activist.es here

This book, which came out after Dr. James Cohn’s death, was helpful in widening my appreciation of the language around the cross and the lynching tree.

This book by Al Raboteau highlights how different populations of God’s people experience the faith differently. Black slaves often worshipped in the master’s church on Sunday morning seated in the balcony, but in the secret of the night they gathered for another worship and interpretation of a liberation kind.

John Calvin is a leading figure in Reformed/Presbyterian thought. He places emphasis on God’s grace and his form of church government guides the church even to this day.

Biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Paul Robeson spoke many languages and thought outside the box as far as being a champion for the rights of every human being. His father was a Presbyterian minister.

This book by Cain Hope Felder introduced a generation of students to reading the Bible from different angles. Specially, this book introduces reading the Bible through the lens of the Black experience in America.

This book imparts the seriousness with which the church does what it does, in deed and in sacrament. The church acts in the world for the life of the world.

This worship book is the Church of Ireland’s worship tool.

This is the Church of Scotland’s worship tool.

Reinhold Niebuhr is a leading figure in what is commonly referred to as neo-orthodox Reformed thought. Most helpful is his Christian Realism. He advocated skepticism, infused by hope, stressing humanity is fallen, precluding utopia, but confident in God’s redemptive plans.

Our tradition is Reformed. It is helpful to know one’s foundation. Reformed worship centers itself on the Word, spoken, written, and living. Reformed worship begins with preparation in the form of confession. Then hears and touches the Word. Then responds to the Word in the world.

This book aides the publication of our weekly liturgical worship as it appears in our worship bulletin each Service for the Lord’s Day.

Karl Barth is genius in guiding believers in focusing on Christian witness as priority. Rather than labels, or theological camps, the Christian life is all about our collective and individual witness to God through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.