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- Jonathan Sacks’ Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
- Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus
and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s The Black Church: This is Our Story,
This is our Song
- Elaine Pagels’s book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics
in the Book of Revelation
- Craig R. Koester’s Great Courses video lectures titled Apocalypse:
Controversies and Meaning in Western History
The links to recordings of some other, earlier discussions are:
June 26, 2022 - “Why the past 10 years of American life have been
uniquely stupid ”, “Is Everything Falling Apart?”, and the
Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade and of New York’s gun law
July 10, 2022 - Potential books for fall and the
TED talk by Yuval Noah Harari called “Bananas in Heaven”
July 17, 2022 - Potential books for fall and the TED talk by Joan C. Williams
“We won’t fix American politics until we talk about class”
July 24, 2022 - Potential books for fall, videos by William Lazonick, and
the TED talk by Yasmin Abdel-Magied about “What Does My Headscarf Mean to You?”
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July 31, 2022 -
The TED talk by Rev. Walter Mwambazi on “ 5 Major Reasons Religion Is the
No. 1 Cause of Poverty in Africa” and our discussion of it
The following videos are all about Jonathan Sacks’s book Morality:
Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times.
Introduction:
The next set of videos are from discussions of the book Jesus and John Wayne
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
- 9/18/2022 - Preface and Introduction - David
- 9/11/2022 - Chapter 1, Saddling Up - Bill
- 9/25/2022 - Chapter 2, John Wayne Will Save Your Ass - Caroline
- 10/2/2022 - Chapter 3, God’s Gift To Man - Al
- 10/9/2022 - Chapter 4, Discipline and Command - Mary Jane
- 10/16/2022 - End of Chapter 4, Discipline and Command and David Brook’s essay on
“The Crisis of Men and Boys”- Mary Jane
- 10/23/2022 - Chapter 5, Slaves and Soldiers - Joel
- 10/30/2022 - Chapter 6, Going for the Jugular - Jack
- 11/6/2022 - Chapter 7, The Greatest American Hero - Mary Jane
- 11/6/2022 - Chapter 8, War For the Soul - Mary Jane
- 11/13/2022 - Chapter 9, Tender Warriors, and Chapter 10, No More Christian Nice Guy - Al
- 11/20/2022 - Chapter 11, Holy Balls, and Chapter 12, Pilgrim’s Progress in Camo - Gail
- 11/27/2022 - Thanksgiving Weekend - vacation
- 12/4/2022 - Chapter 13, Why We Want to Kill You, and Chapter 14, Spiritual Badasses - Caroline
- 12/11/2022 - Chapter 15, A New High Priest, and Chapter 16, Evangelical Mulligans: A History - No leader
- 12/18/2022 - Jesus and John Wayne’s Conclusion and selection of our next study subject - No leader
The next set of videos are from discussions of the book The Black Church
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- 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
The next set of videos are from discussions of the book
Revelations:
Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels
- 3/26/2023 - Chapter 1,
John’s Revelation: Challenging the Evil Empire, Rome
- 4/2/2023 - Chapter 2,
Visions of Heaven and Hell: From Ezekiel and John of Patmos to Paul
- 4/16/2023 - Chapter 3,
Other Revelations: Heresy or Illumination
- 4/23/2023 - Chapter 4,
Confronting Persecution: How Jews and Christians Separated Politics from Religion
- 4/30/2023 - Chapter 5,
Constantine’s Conversion: How John’s Revelation Became Part of the Bible
- 5/7/2023 -
Conclusion of Pagels’s book and
Koester’s lecture 6, God, the Lamb, and the Seven Seals
- 5/7/2023 -
Conclusion of Pagels’s book and
Koester’s lecture 7, Seven Trumpets, Temple, and Celebration
The next set of videos are from discussions of the Great Courses video lectures
Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
by Craig R. Koester.