Databases

Barna Group provides spiritual influencers with credible knowledge and clear thinking, enabling them to navigate a complex and changing culture.

On Bible Odyssey, the world’s leading scholars share the latest historical and literary research on key people, places, and passages of the Bible.

Bible Search & Rescue, a project of the Westar Institute, makes results and tools of academic biblical scholarship available to the general public. The Search feature provides posts on basic information about the bible, while the Rescue feature responds to specific uses of Bible passages and general assumptions about what it says on various topics will be addressed.

Bible Search & Rescue also includes podcasts which offer more discussion on some post topics, interviews with Bible characters, conversations with people whose perspectives have changed based on learning more about biblical scholarship, and more. 

La Biblioteca Digital Anabautista es una initiativa de Mennonite Mission Network (la Red Menonita de Misiones), Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (Goshen College), el Seminario Anabautista Latinoamericano (Semilla), y el Seminario Bíblio Anabautista Hispano (SeBAH).

Biblioteca Digital Anabautista is an initiative of the Mennonite Mission Network (the Mennonite Missions Network), Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism (Goshen College), the Latin American Anabaptist Seminar (Seed), and the Hispanic Anabaptist Bible Seminar (SeBAH).

The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) has long believed that one important step toward ending racism and injustice is a better understanding of our shared history. By providing [free] resources that give context for the Black experience in Oklahoma, we hope to spark civil discourse and open dialogue about the role of race in the history of our state. While these conversations about our past may not be comfortable, they are necessary to understand where we have been and how we can best move forward together. - Description from the OHS website.

ProQuest’s openly available Black Freedom Struggle website features 2,000 expertly selected primary source documents – historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more – from pivotal eras in African American history.

Published from 1987 to 1995, Black Sacred Music sought to establish theomusicology—a theologically informed musicology—as a distinct discipline, incorporating methods from anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy to examine the full range of black sacred music. Topics included black secular music, the early days of rap, soul, jazz, civil rights songs, the religious music of Africa and the African diaspora, spirituals, gospel music, and the music of the black church.

The Black Theology Papers Project aims to preserve and promote the intellectual heritage of black theology. The journal publishes one annual issue featuring papers presented by the Black Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion.

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.

These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 4,000 entries, the complete transcript of more than 300 speeches by African Americans, other people of African ancestry, and those concerned about race, given between 1789 and 2016, over 140 full-text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and six gateway pages with links to digital archive collections, African and African American museums and research centers, genealogical research websites, and more than 200 other website resources on African American and global African history. 

Additionally, 100 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are also linked to the website, as are nine bibliographies listing more than 5,000 major books categorized by author, title, subject, and date of publication.