Social and Environmental Justice Book Group

This group meets Mondays at 4:00 pm on Zoom. Please contact the church office if you need the link.

 

Then comes Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. The premise is that communal spaces such as libraries, childcare centers, parks, and churches are key to maintaining our social infrastructure. Please join us!

 

The next book for discussion is A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore.

 

The next book after that will be The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone by Heidi Roop.

February-March 2023, the group read and discussed Vaclav Smil's How the World Really Works.

November-December 2022, the group read and discussed So You Want to Talk about Race by Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo.

September-October 2022, the group read and discussed Real Good Church by Molly Phinney Baskette.

June-July 2022, the group read and discussed The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather C. McGhee.

April-May 2022, the group read and discussed Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis, by Elin Kelsey

January-February 2022, the group read and discussed Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
 
September-November 2021, the group read and discussed All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson.
 

July-August 2021, the group read and discussed Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

March-April 2021, the group read and discussed The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
 

January-February 2021, the group read and discussed Caste: The Story of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

October-December 2020, the group read and discussed How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
 

July-September 2020, the group read and discussed White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

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