We have started discussing short stories by jesus by Amy-Jill Levine. Here is a calendar of our past and planned discussions of this book. Click on the the links for videos of past discussions.

We have videos that we will play at the beginning of the discussion of six of the ten chapters. These videos are

During winter and spring of 2025, following our discussion of Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law. we prepared an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs. Here is the history of our discussions. Click on the date and subject to watch a video.

January 12, 2025 - First discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
February 2, 2025 - Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
February 9, 2025 - Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
February 16, 2025 - Continued discussion of writing an opinion piece in support of funding HBCUs
February 23, 2025 - Discussion of essay outline
March 2, 2025 - Discussion of second outline for essay
March 16, 2025 - What are the arguments we need to make?
March 23, 2025 - Continuing discussion of what themes do we need to emphasize
March 30, 2025 - Reading and editing the latest draft
April 6, 2025 - Focussing on the point of each paragraph
April 13, 2025 - Discussing a draft for the Washington Post
April 27, 2025 - Editing the draft for the Washington Post
May 4, 2025 - Reviewing the final draft for the Washington Post
May 11, 2025 - Discussion of topics for our future studies
June 1, 2025 - Discussion of revisions to Op/Ed after rejection by the Washington Post

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
go to this URL: http://albertholm.com/SJU-CA/ChristianApplicationsOld.html.

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