The Presbytery invites all to join in the next antiracism series of their book club forum on Mondays at noon in January and February, 2022 on the following dates:
- January 24
- January 31
- February 7
- February 14
The Winter Book Club book will be “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair,” by Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson.
- Click here for the ZOOM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86297172555?pwd=Wkw2aDNRMkp1UHFpR1BpOHk3cFNvZz09
Please click here for a review of the book: An evangelical Christian argument for reparations: A review of Reparations (christiancentury.org)
Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural community in Washington, DC. Kwon is active in public conversations around race, equity, and racial repair in the American church, and he lectures on these topics around the country. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Witness.
Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the cocreator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.