Study Group: Seeing White

All are welcome to join our Sunday morning study/discussion group, originally based on the Scene on Radio podcast, "Seeing White".

The group meets in the LCI library on the first Sunday of each month between services, from 9:30-10:15 AM. New people are welcome to join at any time.  The class is team-taught and each session culminates in a Scripture-based reflection that explores how we as Christians are called to live out our faith in a racialized world. 

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For more details, or to suggest a future study topic, please email Ellen Kolarik or  Jill Van Zanten.

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Schedule

Sunday January 5:  Portrayals of Christianity in African American Fiction

Titles for discussion:

Native Son by Richard Wright
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
The Wedding by Dorothy West

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Sunday February 2:  The Exodus Story and the Role of the Church

Title for discussion:

The Color of Compromise:  The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

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Sunday, March 1:  Gun Violence and Racial Justice

Title for discussion: 

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge. 

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Note:  this is this year’s UC Davis Campus Book Project selection, so we will have a chance to hear the author speak when he comes to UC Davis on Monday, March 2 (the day after our class).   Although the evening talk requires tickets, there is a panel discussion and Q & A with the author from 2:30-4:00 that is free and open to the public.  Both events are in the Mondavi Center.  For information, go to https://ccbp.ucdavis.edu/

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