Join Vicar Kris and other St. John’s members to have important conversations about our Christian faith and racism in America. For eight weeks, participants will explore videos, art, Bible passages, and other short readings to engage in challenging and essential conversations about fighting racism in our country and in our church. This will be an eight-week long adult education opportunity beginning the week of October 11th, with a one-week break the week of Thanksgiving.

Vicar Kris will guide small groups through providing materials and videos for the groups to independently engage in this study. We hope that participants in small groups will be people with whom they are already in regular contact. It could be your spouse or significant other, friends that are within your circle of contact, “Covid circles,” or other people that you continue to see regularly. Any groups of 2 to 8 people are welcome, whether or not they are members of St. John’s. We hope this will give us a chance to have difficult conversations with people whom we trust and allow everyone to maintain public health guidelines.

These groups will meet weekly for at least an hour in a schedule that works for them, at a time and location decided by the group. Vicar Kris will provide groups with materials for discussion, and some framing commentary each week in a brief video message. He will also regularly follow up with groups to engage with them in these conversations in whatever way works for each group—socially distanced in-person, online, by phone call, by email, or by some other means. But most of these group times will be spent in conversation with each other.

For more information and to join the conversation, contact Vicar Kris or email vicar@stjohns-lc.org. Please join us to be a part of these important conversations, and support our new vicar as he learns and grows with our St. John’s community.