Anti-Racism Programming - Readers for Reconciliation

Readers for Reconciliation explores themes of social oppression in popular literature. Calvin students, staff and faculty are welcome to join. Each participant is required to complete the reading and attend every group discussion. A free copy of the book is given to each participant.

Reading for Fall 2011-2012:

Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation
by Adam Taylor

Martin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome- -"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind"--as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King's day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws insights from that movement to the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same. Jim Wallis writes in the foreword, Mobilizing Hope "is a story of how Adam and many of his cohorts are shaping the next strategies for faith-based social change; a theology for social justice; a spirituality for young activists; a handbook for those who want to experiment with activism and search out their own vocation in the world; and a strategy manual that draws lessons from past movements for change." See what today's transformed nonconformists are doing at home and abroad to keep in step with the God of justice and love, and find ways you can join the new nonconformists in an activism of hope.

Book group meeting dates

October 11, 2011
October 25, 2011
November 8, 2011
November 27, 2011
December 6, 2011

All group meetings are from 12pm - 1:30pm

Join / Contact

If you would like to join the book group or have any questions contact Ebonie Atkins or Noah Kruis for more information

Lunch tickets will be provided!

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