Southminster Reads 2025
Each year, the Adult Ed Committee selects a book and invites the whole congregation to read it. We then select a Sunday in September to focus on what people have gained from the book. This year’s selection is “The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World,” by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. In a moving but very practical way, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Mpho share what they have learned about forgiving in many circumstances both as individuals and as a nation.
**We have purchased several copies of the book for the Southminster Library; if you are interested in borrowing one of these, please see Dan Rasmussen.
Click HERE to learn more about “The Book of Forgiving”.
Sunday Starters 2025 –
Overall Theme: Finding our Voices
The first 4 weeks are AFTER WORSHIP events in the sanctuary
9/21 – Southminster Reads: Discussion of “The Book of Forgiving”
9/28 – Anti-racism discussion
10/5 and 10/12 – The ABC’s of LGBTQIA+, led by Gabi Marcus
The next 6 weeks are Sunday Starters, 9 AM in Room 7
10/19, 10/26 and 11/2 – Pastor Scott will lead discussions using Walter Brueggemann’s book “Interrupting Silence: God’s Command to Speak Out”
11/9, 11/16 and 11/23 – Historic lessons in resisting tyranny from the 2017 book, “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder.
Church Library
Please remember that we have a library for your reading enjoyment and enlightenment. Stop by Room 7 to check out our collection of books on the Bible, theology, and current issues. There are also some reference works on the shelves in the Conference Room. Feel free to borrow (and return) books that you find interesting.
First Tuesday Book Group
Adult Education leads a book study on the first Tuesday of each month with books on Social Justice and Progressive Theology. This is a drop-in club. Some people come every month, and others come when the topic or book is of particular interest. All are welcome to a time of fellowship and lively discussion for readers. You can also join our Group on Goodreads.com.
Join us on Zoom Meeting ID: 926 7484 8140 Passcode: 622600
Church Activism – Ongoing
The Adult Education and Mission Committees are working together to encourage new Southminster Activism efforts. Several will be focused on with Sunday Starter modules this year. Activism teams are Gun Violence Prevention; Climate and Environmental Justice; Women’s Health Justice; Immigration Justice; Mental Health and Criminal Justice; and Homelessness and Hunger. Watch the Southminster News for more information or to join a team.
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