Autumn Book Study:

SUBVERSIVE WITNESS: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege

Thursdays, 3:00–4:00 pm
October 1 – November 19 (8 weeks)

The Big Question: What do we do with the privilege and power we have?

In Subversive Witness, pastor and author Dominique DuBois Gilliard invites us to look again at familiar biblical stories and notice how people such as Esther, Moses, Paul and Silas, Zacchaeus, and Jesus navigate privilege and power. Rather than simply feeling guilty about privilege or pretending it doesn’t exist, Gilliard asks how it might be used, and sometimes surrendered, in the service of our neighbors, justice, and God’s work in the world.

Each Thursday we’ll gather for an hour. We’ll have a few minutes to arrive and settle in, watch one session from Gilliard’s eight-part video study, spend time in conversation and discussion, and close with prayer. The videos are short, about 15-20 minutes each, leaving plenty of time for us to wrestle with the ideas together.

Participants are encouraged to read one chapter of Subversive Witness each week, but reading is not required. If you haven’t finished the chapter, or haven’t started the book at all, come anyway! The video and conversation will provide plenty of ways to participate.

Come ready to listen, ask questions, encounter Scripture from some fresh angles, and explore together what faithful Christian witness might look like in the world around us.

Books are available for order on any bookstore website, and can be ordered through any of our community bookstores.  The book is readily available in e-reader formats (like Kindle) and audio books as well.

See you on the first of October!

-Pastor Brad