Concordia University Wisconsin issued the following announcement on September 15.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: ZOOM FACULTY BOOK DISCUSSION
Tuesday, Sep. 15, 20208:00 am (All Day Event) (CDT)LOCATION: Online
Sr. VP Dr. Gretchen Jameson will facilitate this book discussion on Eddie Glaue, Jr.'s "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own."
"Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin
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In what critics have called a "searing, provocative, and ultimately hopeful book," Eddie Glaude, Jr.--James S. McDonnel Distinguished University Professors of African American Studies at Princeton University--suggests America can find hope and guidance to (borrowing a phrase from Lincoln) "think anew and act anew." Begin Again is Glaude's endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today.
BOOK DISCUSSION DATES
Book discussions will take place from 12-1 p.m. CT/1-2 p.m. ET on the following dates:
Friday, Sept. 25
Friday, Oct. 23
Friday, Nov. 13
Friday, Dec. 4
REGISTRATION
Registration is required to participate. Click on the "Register Now" button to reserve your spot. A Zoom link will be emailed to participants following the Sept. 15 registration deadline.
FROM THE FACILITATOR
Glaude is unapologetic in his political leaning. Our goal in the book conversation will not be to argue the rightness or wrongness of political policy, but as Christian scholars and leaders, there is something provocative about the idea of claiming the mantle of responsibility, of voluntarily stepping forward to a certain civic accountability in the face of difficult and challenging topics and times.
I read this book on my summer vacation. Sitting alone on the beach and by the pool, I kept wishing I had some peers with whom to talk about what it stirred in me, the questions it led me to ponder, my own sense of responsibility and failed accountability. It will be a delight to gather together with colleagues around this book. I hope you will join us.
Original source here.
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