Rooted in extensive historical research, Committed: The Lives, Work, and Love of Charles and Shirley Sherrod is a nonfiction book written for everyone concerned with how to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly over the long haul. Rooted in extensive archival research, the book follows activists Charles and Shirley Sherrod through their childhoods in Virginia and Georgia, their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, their marriage, and their ongoing work for racial and agricultural justice in the rural South. It explores how they endured—holding to their theological and moral commitments, and to one another—as the political and environmental landscape of Southwest Georgia changed. In telling the story of the Sherrods, Committed challenges presumptions of inevitable historical progress and yet holds out a durable hope for the effects of radical, loving presence. Indeed, in our days of racist terrorism, fracturing democracy, ecological ruin, and desperate isolation, we need the example of the Sherrods more than ever.