This month, we’re reading Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust, the Trans Handy Ma’am. Stardust, a certified repair technician, collaborated with Habitat for Humanity International to promote our Home Is the Key fundraising campaign and also has expressed her appreciation as a trans person for the acceptance and support […]
Read with Us: On Juneteenth
In honor of Juneteenth, this month we’re reading On Juneteenth by Harvard professor and Texas native Annette Gordon-Reed. While her research and publications cover an impressive range of topics, she has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. Her extensive research into Thomas Jefferson, […]
Read with Us: Saving Us
In honor of Earth Day, our April read is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe. An evangelical Christian, Hayhoe serves as chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy and the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at […]
Read with Us: The Cotton Patch Evidence
This month, we’re reading The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia Farm Experiment (1942-1970) by Dallas Lee. Koinonia Farm, a community near Americus, Georgia, was founded by biblical scholar and farmer Jordan, who envisioned a place where people could live and work together regardless of racial differences. He persisted with […]