Upcoming Book Studies
During the current public health emergency, Book Studies will be held on Zoom video conferences. Interested participants will be sent a Zoom meeting invitation. The book studies will be held from 10:30 AM to 12 Noon. Please click "Join Group" below to request an invitation.
Book Study
The Art of Community
Sundays, January 24 & 31, 2021
10:30 AM TO Noon
There will be meditation time and music in addition
to our program on the book.
While you are encouraged you to read the book,
it is not necessary for participation in our sessions.
Next Sunday, the 24th, we will discuss the beginning
of the book up through the Third Principle on Rituals
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Sunday, February 28th
10:30 AM To Noon
Part 1 Slaveholder Religion
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Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang "Amazing Grace" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder.
Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systematic abuses of power.
When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society to repair the breach and heal our land.