Having finished reading The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
we will begin discussions of
Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation
by Elaine Pagels. We will see how far we can go with the first chapter,
Johns Revelation: Challenging the Evil Empire, Rome on Sunday, March 26.
Here are links to the recordings of our discussions of The Black Church.
- 1/08/2023 - Begin discussions of The Black Church; This is Our Story, This is our Song
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This session was not recorded.
- 1/15/2023 - Preface, Introduction,
and first two sections of Chapter 1,
- 1/22/2023 - Chapter 1
sections Awakenings & The Medodist Church, Abolition, and
Revolution
- 1/29/2023 - Chapter 2, A Nation within a Nation
and sections Staking Their Claim, and Saving the Souls of Black Folks
- 2/5/2023 - Chapter 2 sections The Word of God,
The Work of God,
The Vote, God Is a Negro and Other Revolutionary Thoughts,
The Frenzy and the Holy Spirit .
- 2/12/2023 - The first part of
Chapter 3, God Will Make A Way.
- 2/19/2023 - The second part of
Chapter 3, God Will Make A Way, sections about
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcom X.
- 2/26/2023 - The first half of
Chapter 4, Crisis of Faith, pages 149 through 177
- 3/5/2023 - The rest of
Chapter 4, Crisis of Faith, pages 149 through 177
- 3/19/2023 - The Epilogue
When we finish Revelations, we will start Peniel E. Josephs book The Third
Reconstruction:
Americas Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
To watch our prior discussions of several TED talks, Jonathan Sacks book Morality:
Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times.,
and Kristin Kobes Du Mezs book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
go to this URL: http://albertholm.com/SJU-CA/ChristianApplicationsOld.html.