Monthly on Thursdays, 6:30-8 pm
September - May (no meeting in January)
Location: LL2
Group Leader: Kim Samuelson
 

JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion)
JEDI Book Club includes eight monthly classes exploring race, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, sexual identity, abilities, age, and national origin. Participants are responsible for reading six secular books, watching one film, and investigating how these factors currently impact our lives, church, and community. The workshop is set up to be experiential, interactive, and discussion-based. Each class is designed to  

• first focus on the issues of the text assigned for that class session (reflection on the text), 
• then focus on the connections of the text to our lives, church, and community (the text in our lives), 
• and finally, focus on how the equity issues of the text are addressed in the Bible (going beyond the text). 

The class is based on The SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, originally designed by Peggy McIntosh and Emily Styles. And, we'll use Wesley's quadrilateral-reason, experience, scripture, tradition (REST)-for studying and responding.

Texts for 2025-26 

• September 11 (Introduction) - no prep required
• October 12 at 6PM* (American Indian) - The Firekeeper's Daughter
• November 13 (LGBTQ) - Alchemy from Ashes 
• December 11 (Immigration) - Split at the Roots 
• February 12 (Ability) - The Sign for Home 
• March 12 (Women's Issues) - All in Her Head  
• April 9 (Christian Nationalism) - Star-Spangled Jesus 
• May 14 (African American) - Horse
  

Sign up here! (in the Studies section)