Community Reads -- A Joint Venture
Book Four: Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in Pursuit of Racial Justice, by Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Beginning in April 2022, we will join in reading the account of one of the “Central Park Five.”
Yusef Salaam endured one of the gravest miscarriages of justice. He responds to racism and injustice by speaking and writing about the effects of incarceration and disenfranchisement on individuals, families and the larger community. Access to discussion questions is provided here:
Discussion Questions Week One
Discussion Questions Week Two
Discussion Questions Week Three
Tuesday, May 24th, 7:00-8:00 p.m., We will discuss themes that participants found relevant.
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Yusef Salaam endured one of the gravest miscarriages of justice. He responds to racism and injustice by speaking and writing about the effects of incarceration and disenfranchisement on individuals, families and the larger community. Access to discussion questions is provided here:
Discussion Questions Week One
Discussion Questions Week Two
Discussion Questions Week Three
Tuesday, May 24th, 7:00-8:00 p.m., We will discuss themes that participants found relevant.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81777103020?pwd=eDra0wT5WQdB--ddtF0rwqAT1xvvMm.1
Meeting ID: 817 7710 3020 Passcode: 969422
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US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,81777103020#,,,,*969422# US (Chicago)
Book One for 2022
Book Three: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing, by Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.
The book takes the reader on a journey through African enslavement and addresses the following:
What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African Americans today? (J. DeGruy)
A brief clip by Dr. DeGruy is provided here.
Book Three: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing, by Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.
The book takes the reader on a journey through African enslavement and addresses the following:
What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African Americans today? (J. DeGruy)
A brief clip by Dr. DeGruy is provided here.
Books Read in 2021
Book One: The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community, by Stephanie Spellers, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Canon for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation. Beginning in September 2021, we will participate in walking through the painful and challenging history of the Episcopal Church in America. We will also give consideration to ways that we can recenter away from empire and onto God and God’s dream. (S. Spellers). (Completed, October 2021)
Our discussions were rich and challenging. We will in the future revisit this material as COVID restrictions are lifted. In the meantime, a webinar discussion of The Church Cracked Open facilitated by Rev. Spellers in May 2021 and hosted by the staff of the Episcopal Church Foundation. I believe it will offer some interesting insights into how the material in the book was received by others and how Rev. Spellers engaged participants in "real time" to address some of the challenging issues raised.
LINK: https://www.ecfvp.org/webinars/275/an-evening-with-the-rev-canon-stephanie-spellers
Book One: The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community, by Stephanie Spellers, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Canon for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation. Beginning in September 2021, we will participate in walking through the painful and challenging history of the Episcopal Church in America. We will also give consideration to ways that we can recenter away from empire and onto God and God’s dream. (S. Spellers). (Completed, October 2021)
Our discussions were rich and challenging. We will in the future revisit this material as COVID restrictions are lifted. In the meantime, a webinar discussion of The Church Cracked Open facilitated by Rev. Spellers in May 2021 and hosted by the staff of the Episcopal Church Foundation. I believe it will offer some interesting insights into how the material in the book was received by others and how Rev. Spellers engaged participants in "real time" to address some of the challenging issues raised.
LINK: https://www.ecfvp.org/webinars/275/an-evening-with-the-rev-canon-stephanie-spellers
Book Two: Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization, by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, from The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Series.
The authors will walk the reader through some of the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Those wounds are inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. (Enns & Myers)
Links: Website for further information
Cultural Survival Quarterly
The authors will walk the reader through some of the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Those wounds are inextricably woven into the fabric of our personal and political lives. (Enns & Myers)
Links: Website for further information
Cultural Survival Quarterly
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