You’re invited to MBH book club facilitated by Paul Cumin
*Winter 2019/20 book announced:
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
One chapter per week
- Time 12 p.m.–1 p.m. Mountain Time
- Day: Wednesday
- Start: January 2020
- Duration: 7 weeks
- Location: Zoom
- Participants: total participants may be capped to ensure manageable discussions; first to sign up will be first accepted; attendance at all sessions not compulsory
Book: participants are responsible to acquire their own copy of the book
Click here to sign up to participate or to enquire further
Week 1
Introduction
Read also
Week 2
Chapter 1: “Nobody Knows de Trouble I See”: The Cross and the Lynching Tree in the Black Experience
Week 3
Chapter 2: “The Terrible Beauty of the Cross” and the Tragedy of the Lynching Tree: A Reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr
Week 4
Chapter 3: Bearing the Cross and Staring Down the Lynching Tree: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Struggle to Redeem the Soul of America
Week 5
Chapter 4: The Recrucified Christ in Black Literary Imagination
Week 6
Chapter 5: “Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep”
Week 7
Conclusion: Legacies of the Cross and the Lynching Tree
Past discussions
The Activist Impulse: Essays on the intersection of evangelicalism and Anabaptism
One chapter per week
Start: March 1, 2019
June 14
“Evangelical hermeneutics, Anabaptist ethics: John Howard Yoder, the Solas, and the question of war”
by David C. Cramer
June 7
“Beyond Anselm: A biblical and evangelical case for nonviolent atonement”
by Kirk R. MacGregor
May 31
“‘Go tell that fox!’ Evangelical Anabaptist reflections on religion and the public square”
by Timothy Paul Erdel
May 24
“The Evangelical-Anabaptist Spectrum: The political theologies of Francis Schaeffer, John Howard Yoder, and Jim Wallis”
by Geoffrey C. Bowden
Several mentioned To Change the World…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/to-change-the-world-9780199730803?cc=ca&lang=en&#
May 17
“Rebaptizing Evangelicalism: American Anabaptists and the 1970s Evangelical Left”
by David R. Swartz
Re JHY
MennoMedia to include “publisher’s statement” in John Howard Yoder books
May 10
“Pool tables are the devil’s playground: Forging an Evangélico-Anabautista Identity in South Texas”
by Felipe Hinojosa
What is MVS?
http://mennoworld.org/2018/01/08/the-world-together/can-mennonite-voluntary-service-be-saved/ http://www.serviceprograms.org/mennonitevoluntaryservice.html
May 3, 2019
by Matthew Eaton and Joel Boehner
CCMBC ministry model (scroll down to see the Venn diagram that isn’t)
https://www.mennonitebrethren.ca/about-ccmbc/
April 26, 2019
Chapter 7: “Misfits and Fundamentalists: The Question of Evangelicalism and Defection among Lancaster and Franconia Mennonites”
by Jared S. Burkholder
J.B. Toews article
https://directionjournal.org/10/3/influence-of-fundamentalism-on-mennonite.html
April 19, 2019
Good Friday. No meeting.
April 12, 2019
Chapter 6: “A cord of many strands: Re-examining Grace Brethren identity and the fundamentalism of Alva J. McClain”
by M.M. Norris
Background on the Church of the Brethren
April 5, 2019
Chapter 5: “‘I submit’: Daniel Kauffman and the legacy of a yielded life”
by Nathan E. Yoder
March 29, 2019
Chapter 4: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and a Mennonite ‘Third Way’: Re-examining the career of Bishop Daniel Kauffman”
by Benjamin Wetzel
March 22, 2019
Chapter 3: Intellectual Hospitality as Historical Method: Moving beyond the Activist Impulse”
by John Fea
March 15, 2019
Chapter 2: “Anabaptism and Evangelicalism Revisited: Healing a Contentious Relationship?”
by John Roth
March 8, 2019
Chapter 1: “Activist Impulses across Time: North American Evangelicalism and Anabaptism as Conversation Partners”
by Steven Nolt
March 1, 2019
Tim Geddert webinars on evangelical-Anabaptism
https://usmb.org/resource-library/#video
David Cramer blog posts on Anabaptism
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anabaptistrevisions/2019/01/anabaptism-and-historic-evangelicalism/