Be A Revolution Book Discussion and Application Group via Zoom
Reading Be A Revolution
By Ijeoma Oluo
A 8-Meeting Study: Beginning May 18th & May 20th. We meet for one hour via Zoom.
Purchase the Book: https://amzn.to/42OyZq9
What Happens Next
All groups are hosted on The Contemplative Cathedral, an online platform that allows for sharing, discussion, access to Zoom links, and multi-model learning and engagement. You will receive an invitation to join the group in The Cathedral at least a week before we begin.
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About the Book Discussion:
In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems—like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more—she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the listener can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.
This book aims to not only be educational, but to inspire action and change. Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.
Our study group is a safe space for participants to reflect and share personal and communal experiences. Everyone is free to share without fear of being scolded or shamed for accidentally saying something that may be contradictory to what we are challenged to see, understand, and enact. Participants share, learn, make mistakes, and grow together in our engagement with material, each other, and the world around us.
We will meet 8 times via Zoom from May to August. We read a section of Be a Revolution in preparation for each gathering with other supplemental resources offered as well. We currently have two groups you can join. One will meet on Tuesdays from 1:30pm-2:30pm and the other group will meet Sundays 7:30pm-8:30pm. Tuesday's group starts meeting on May 20th, and Sunday's group starts meeting on May 18th.
If you want to participate but can't make it on Sunday or Tuesday, or already have a group of your own that is interested, indicate that on the registration and I'll reach out to you.
You are encouraged to invite your friends and others who would be interested! Since it is on Zoom you can join from anywhere!
Groups are facilitated by Rev. Zac Wolfe, Director of Social Transformation and Pastor for Contemplate Lincoln. Contact Zac at zac@contemplatelincoln.org with questions.
