$ Practicing Resurrection Book Club (Hope 4 Humanity)

PRACTICING RESURRECTION BOOK CLUB

Four (4) online meetings via Zoom

Tuesdays: September 3, September 10, September 24, and October 1

6-8 p.m. Eastern Time

EXCITING UPDATE ON 8.26.24: Author Janet Wolf will be participating in the book club! Be sure to register now for this wonderful opportunity to hear directly from her!

This book club leads into the “Practicing Resurrection: Radical Discipleship for Beloved Community” event on our Charlotte campus with the author of this book club book, Janet Wolf. The event is planned for Saturday, September 28. Click here for more information or to register for the September 28 event.

About Our Book Clubs

The Leadership Institute will offer book clubs throughout the year. They will be virtual and supported by centers and Leadership Institute partners. The aim of the Leadership Institute Book Clubs is to create multicultural, intergenerational spaces where participants can delve further into texts, while learning alongside people from a multitude of social locations.

Format

Reading: Practicing Resurrection: The Gospel of Mark and Radical Discipleship,by Janet Wolf

Description: Janet Wolf presents this well-known Gospel through voices and experiences that are often relegated to the margins: where we stand, what we see, to whom we listen, whose stories and voices we value or dismiss that shape the way we understand the world and the Bible.

This book incorporates the stories of those on the margins to uncover how the Gospel is alive and well today, and how God is, and always has been, calling us to live out the Word in a radical way. The study begins in Mark 14 with the story of a woman who bursts into a gathering of male disciples to anoint Jesus, and, to the surprise of the disciples, is resoundingly affirmed.

Throughout, Wolf utilizes personal experiences and stories entrusted to her through her work in prisons and as a community organizer to invite us to experience the power that stories have to heal, transform, liberate, and unshackle. She will engage participants in Scripture through a participatory Bible study process, which raises up voices and perspectives that are too often silenced or unheard. She will push readers to Good News–but for whom, and about what?

In five chapters, Wolf examines different passages in Mark and challenges readers to discover what radical discipleship looks like in context. Each chapter ends with questions for personal reflection to help readers apply what they are learning in the study.