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  1. Jonathan Sacks’ Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
  2. Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
  3. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is our Song
  4. Elaine Pagels’s book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation
  5. Craig R. Koester’s Great Courses video lectures titled Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History
  6. Peniel Joseph’s book The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
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?” >
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.

The next set of videos are from discussions of the book The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The next set of videos are from discussions of the book Revelations: Vision, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels

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.

Lesson Topic
6 God, the Lamb, and the Seven Seals
7 Seven Trumpets, Temple, and Celebration
8 The Dragon and the Problem of Evil
9 The Beasts and Evil in the Political Sphere
10 The Harlot and the Imperial Economy
11 The Battle, the Kingdom, and Last Judgment
12 New Creation and New Jerusalem
23 Rapture, Tribulation, and Armageddon
24 The Modern Apocalyptic Renaissance

The next set of videos are from discussions of the book The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

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