A day of Blessings! In case you missed it, here is the video sermon The Sparrow by Karen Hoyer and Jackson Gage.
Thanks for bringing blessings to us!
Pet Blessing
Category: Events
Why change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Learn about the current movement to change the celebration of Columbus Day to a celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Thank you to all who attended our conversation. We discussed this press release calling for the change.
Other suggested reading:
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
This document will give you background and perspective from the American Indian Center.
Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America by Carol Delaney
White Fragility Book Discussion
Thursday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Join us to discuss the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Reading this Atlantic Monthly article that gives a critique of the book will help us discuss what Black authors are saying about this book by a White author.
Here is a link to the reading guide: https://www.beacon.org/assets/pdfs/whitefragilityreadingguide.pdf
Here are the questions we will discuss.
Join us on Thursday, August 20 at 7:30 pm via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82264014704 Meeting ID: 822 6401 4704
By phone: 312.626.6799 Meeting ID: 998 6450 0270#
Wrestling with White Supremacy
Book Discussion Thursday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m.
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard hitting but user friendly examination of race in America. She offers a contemporary take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement and more.
All are welcome to join!
We will host this event through Zoom.
You can RSVP to rector@stjohnschicago.com to get the zoom link.
A reading list from St. John’s Episcopal Church
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Waking up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
- Birth of A White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The 1619 Project published the New York Times
Vigil for George Floyd
RAIN UPDATE: Candles will be placed just inside the front doors of the church. Please light a candle and then step out.
If joining in person:
You must wear a mask and remain 6 feet apart from other attendees.
We invite you to light a candle and remain for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Please return home so that others may light candles.
You can continue your vigil with us facebook.com/stjohnschicago or Zoom Meeting ID: 827 5533 3446 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82755333446
This vigil in memory of George Floyd is sponsored by St. John’s Episcopal Church, the St. John’s Antiracism Team, and Friendship Presbyterian Church.
