On February 8, we will discuss Introduction: Good Trouble in the book The Tears of Things by Richard Rohr. Click on the chapter title to see the video of our discussion of it.

Go to URL: http://albertholm.com/SJU-CA/ChristianApplicationsOld.html to watch videos of our prior discussions of:

  1. several TED talks,
  2. Jonathan Sacks’s book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times,
  3. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
  4. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s book The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song,
  5. Elaine Pagels’s book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation and
  6. Craig R. Koester’s Great Courses video lectures titled Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
  7. Peniel Joseph’s book The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.
  8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  9. Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s book As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock.
  10. Richard Rothstein’s book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  11. Peter Enns’s book The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More than Our “Correct” Beliefs
  12. Christian Applications Members’ project “Investing in Historically Black Colleges and Universities”, an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
  13. Amy-Jill Levine’ short stories by jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi

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