Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice

The Lenten Detox Series Continues

THURSDAY: CLBSJ Board Member Rick Ufford-Chase will be leading a bible study tomorrow on a justice-oriented reading of the Ten Commandments: https://clbsj.org//2/03/04/lenten-detox-rick-ufford-chase/ Join us at 4:30pm pacific time / 7:30pm eastern time via zoom or streaming on facebook. This event is part of a series that the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice is doing during Lent. People of all faiths and traditions are welcome!

A Live Lenten Detox Bible Study - Thursday, February 25, 2021

Mark 14:1-11 led by Brigitte Kahl

The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice (CLBSJ) invites people of all faiths and traditions to join us in a Lenten discipline of biblical detox, each Thursday night at 7:30pm eastern time. The first session will be led by Dr. Brigitte Kahl from Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Kahl is the author of Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished (2010), and her work focuses on understanding the New Testament in the context of Roman Empire. She will lead us in an exploration of Mark 14:1-11, which appears in the lectionary at the end of Lent this year, and contains the often misused verse For you will always have the poor with you. Read more and register here: https://clbsj.org/events//02/18/lenten-detox-brigitte-kahl/ See the full schedule here: https://clbsj.org/events/lenten-detox/

Join us for a conversation between CLBSJ board chair, Nick Johnson, and Dr. Dong Hyeon Jeong!

THIS THURSDAY: Dong Hyeon Jeong and Nicholas Johnson respond to supremacist use of scripture With all eyes on the struggle against organized white supremacy in the United States, what can each of us do to honor and carry forward the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? One thing we at CLBSJ feel called to do is to search out the parts of our scripture that forces of hate and division have seized and mobilized toward their ends, and do the work of disentangling, cl...eansing, liberating. You are invited to dive into this work this Thursday, January 21, at 7:30 EST with CLBSJ Board Chair Nicholas Johnson and New Testament scholar Dong Hyeon Jeong. Attendees are invited to review Dong Hyeon's article, When the KKK Exegetes: Circulating Hate with 2 Peter, published in Spring 2020 by the Association of Jewish Studies, in advance. For more details and to register, click here: https://clbsj.org//scholar-activist-encounter-dong-hyeon-/

In 2021, let's work together to take back the Bible! Your gifts and participation are needed to realize this vision. Read more and fill our our survey here: https://mailchi.mp/0e29413/december2020-newyears-invitation Make your year-end gift here: https://clbsj.org/donate/ Looking forward!

Join us for a conversation between Weldon Nisly and Tom Boomershine

Join us for a conversation between Abby mohaupt and Rick Ufford-Chase happening now! Sorry for the disruptions. Experiencing technical issues. Thanks for your patience.

Join us for a conversation between abby mohaupt and Rick Ufford-Chase happening now!