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, John’s Revelation: Challenging the Evil Empire, Rome on Sunday, March 26.

• 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. Joseph’s book The Third Reconstruction: America’s 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 Mez’s 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.