The Climate Committee Meeting in November falls on Thanksgiving Weekend and our Meeting in December falls on the New Years weekend. So we won’t meet in November and December 2025. Look for our next meeting on after Church on Sunday January 25.
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory, and resilience on the margins of society. The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at noon. We meet in … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read January 4, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile DeWeaver Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read December 7, 2025
Starting in November, Austin Phillips will accompany our worship services one Sunday per month and the choir for two rehearsals per month. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied under Antonio Pompa-Baldi.
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate This novel is inspired by the actual “Lost Friends” newspaper advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War as they searched for lost family members. It follows two intertwined storylines: one set in 1875 and one in 1987. The Social Justice Book Club meets on … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read November 2, 2025
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life. The Social Justice Book Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at noon. We meet in person … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read October 5, 2025
The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades … Continue reading Social Justice Book Read September 7, 2025
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory Boyle In a moving example of unconditional love in difficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling author of TATTOOS ON THE HEART, Gregory Boyle, shares what three decades of working with gang members in Los Angeles has taught him about faith, compassion, and the enduring … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club Read August 3, 2025
James by Percival Everett The novel is a re-imagining of Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry’s friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize, the National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Social Justice … Continue reading Social Justice Book Club Read July 6, 2025
