Join Our Monthly Book Club: Every 1st Thursday @ 6:30 pm on Zoom.
Our October discussion will be dedicated to the book Jesus and John Wayne, How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes du Mez. From the publisher’s description:
The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.
UPCOMING BOOKS:
November 3rd, 2022: How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace by Melissa Florer-Bixler.
December 1st, 2022: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
January 5th, 2023: Living Buddha, Living Christ 20th Anniversary Edition by Thich Nhat Hanh
February 2nd, 2023: Faithful Antiracism, Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change by Christina Barehand Edmondson & Chad Brennan.
March 2nd, 2023: Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference by Tim Keller and John D. Inazu.
April 6th, 2023: Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matthew Soerens Jenny Yang, anf Leith Anderson.
June 1st, 2023: Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances by Catherine Keller.
July 6th, 2023: Love Big or Go Home: the inherent nomadic nature of the gospel - a theology of mission for all people by Phil Wyman.