Let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24
Amos 5:24
Journey Toward Justice provides meaningful opportunities to learn about and explore the challenges of justice and equity. Through book discussions, tours to sacred sites, and multi-cultural events at Diamond Lake, the group is working toward creating greater transformative change in our community and our world. All are welcome to participate—and at your own pace as this is considered ongoing, life-long learning.
Connect, a ministry that developed from our two-year partnership with Augsburg University’s Riverside Innovation Hub, focuses on being the church inside and outside the building by being present in our neighbors’ lives, listening to their stories, and being better together. By truly knowing our neighbors, we can discover how their stories, our stories, and God's story interconnect in ways that allow us to be the good news in one another’s lives. Throughout the year, the group offers opportunities for learning, times to listen, and more ways to connect with one another in deep and meaningful ways.
How do you start working toward social justice? Sometimes the best way is with more information. Below are some of the favorite resources that the Journey Toward Justice team finds helpful. Explore and join us at our next gathering.
Hidden Figures
Just Mercy
Emmanuel
Remember the Titans
Selma
Race
I Am Not Your Negro
When They See us (Netflix mini-series)
When purchasing books, please support metro-area independent bookstores such as Black Garnet Books, Strive, and Birchbark Books.
This year, the ELCA’s Truth and Healing Movement introduces the Truth and Healing Movement Reading Circle, a book club focused on reading works by Indigenous authors. This year’s selection is Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux).A discussion guide is available here.
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Dialogues on Race
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibrem X Kendi
Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Native: Identity, Belonging and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo
ELCA Truth and Healing Movement
Broadleaf Books- Committed to publishing authors who bring thoughtful perspective to explorations in religion, spirituality, social justice, culture, and personal growth with credibility and authenticity.
National Museum of African American History and Culture