Social and Environmental Justice Book Group

This group meets Mondays at 4:00 pm on Zoom. Please contact the church office if you need the link.  All are welcome!

 

Current book:

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry

 

Previous books:

The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy by Jim Wallis

The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish by B.J. Cummings

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Cathedral on Fire!: A Church Handbook for the Climate Crisis by Brooks Berndt

The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor

Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City by Megan Asaka

Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions for Everyone by Heidi Roop

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

So You Want to Talk about Race by Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo

Real Good Church by Molly Phinney Baskette

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather C. McGhee.

Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis by Elin Kelsey

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
 
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
 
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
 

Caste: The Story of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
 

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo