Program Year 2024-25
These are our current course offerings. All are free, and materials will be provided. Please feel free to register and join in at any time.
The Conquest of Bread
March 13 - April 17, 2025.
Dr. Deb Conrad leads this discussion of Peter Kropotkin’s 1892 book on Anarchism with conversation of what this might mean and how it might look today. Kropotkin was a Russian prince who renounced his title and dedicated himself to the wellbeing of all. We’ll read it together chapter by chapter, and while a discussion guide will be provided, discussion will go wherever the group leads.
Policing and the Black Experience
beginning in March, dates to be determined
led by Dr. Deonte Hollowell
Collective Rest Series
beginning Feb 5, 12-1 pm
This is an opportunity to support each other in resting, facilitated by Dr. Aishia Brown and Khalilah Colllins.
Log on and join us for a short meditation practice and then spend the next 45 minutes in unguided rest, leisure, and/or whatever brings you joy and promotes rest and rejuvenation.
✅Faith in the Face of Empire
Jan 23-Feb 12, 2025
Dr. Deb Conrad leads this discussion of Palestine theologian Mitri Rehab’s 2014 book subtitled “The Bible through Palestinian Eyes.” With Israel and the US Christian Right insisting on a “biblical” approach to the reality in Palestine, it would be helpful to read those texts from someone else’s vantage point. Dr. Raheb is a Christian pastor and Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. As is Deb’s practice, we’ll read it together chapter by chapter, and while a discussion guide will be provided, discussion will go wherever the group leads.
✅The Leadership of Tupac Shakir
Oct 21 - Nov 25, 2024. Dr. Deonte Hollowell of Spalding University’s African American Studies program leads this provocative exploration of rapper and cultural icon Tupac Shakur — his poetry, his life, his impact and legacy. Dr. Hollowell is a graduate of the University of Louisville and Temple University, with study focus on the relationship between African Americans and the police.
✅PROJECT 2025
Oct 9 - Nov 20, 2024.
In collaboration with Louisville SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), we are happy to host this series on Project 2025, the right-wing master plan for US regression. Progress is always slow, but this program would turn the tide and pull us all under.