Monthly on Thursdays, 6:30-8 pm
September - May (no meeting in January)
Location: LL4
Group Leader:  Kim Samuelson

JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion)
JEDI Book Club includes eight monthly classes exploring race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, sexual identity, abilities, age, and national origin. Participants are responsible for reading six secular books, watching one film, and investigating how these factors currently impact our lives, church, and community. The workshop is set up to be experiential, interactive, and discussion-based. Each class is designed to

• first focus on the issues of the text assigned for that class session (reflection on the text),
• then focus on the connections of the text to our lives, church, and community (the text in our lives),
• and finally, focus on how the equity issues of the text are addressed in the Bible (going beyond the text).

The class is based on The SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, originally designed by Peggy McIntosh and Emily Styles.

Texts for 2024-25

• October 17 (LGBTQ+) - All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
• November 7 (Immigration) - The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
• December 12 (Homelessness) - The Beautiful Game (Netflix movie)
• February 16 (Juvenile Justice) - Written Off by Hasan Davis
• March 13 (Socioecomonic Status) - Maid by Stephanie Land
• April 10 (Women's Issues) - Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez
• May 8 (Mental Health) - Maame by Jessica George

Sign up here!  (in the Studies section)