Monthly on Sundays, 11:15-12:45 pm*
September - May (no meeting in January)
Location: LL2
Group Leader(s): Olivia & Sean Ring
 

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 2026-27 

• September 20 (Introduction) - excerpts from Outraged, ch 6 of Jesus is Lord
• October 18 (Gender) - The Men We Need
• November 15 (Mental Health) - Anxious People 
• December 13 (Homelessness) - Discussion on Open Door Mission speaker** 
• February 21 (Justice System) - Profit and Punishment 
• March 14 (Immigration) - The Beekeeper of Aleppo  
• April 18 (Racism) - The Color of Compromise  
• May 16 (LGBTQ+) - Affirming
  

* If your calendar doesn't allow for one of these dates, feel free to attend the Wednesday class.
** The speaker from Open Door Mission will be a joint JEDI session at an earlier date.

Sign up here! (in the Studies section)