Prospect Congregational United Church of Christ

An Open and Affirming Congregation

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.

The group has concluded study of Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis, by Elin Kelsey, and will resume on June 13, 2022 with a new book, to be announced.

 

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.

This group began in the summer of 2020 in response to Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality in Seattle and many other cities and towns in the USA and around the world. In August 2021, the group chose to broaden its interest area to all social and environmental justice topics. It meets online, Mondays at 4:00 p.m. Please contact the church office for the link.

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