Adult Bible Study

Our Fall Book Read will be “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth Wheeler.

We will meet on September 23 at 9:30am at Mimosa’s on 27th St. in Franklin. 

Some of you may remember Pastor Ken Wheeler who served in the Greater Milwaukee synod for 16 years as an Assistant to the Bishop and as an Interim Pastor. This is his memoir and his call to action. In this heart-wrenching yet stubbornly hopeful narrative, Evangelical Lutheran pastor Kenneth Wheeler exposes white supremacy as America's greatest threat. Transcending the boundaries of memoir, scholarship, theology, and sharp political critique, Pastor Wheeler takes readers on his own seven-decade-long journey that lays bare the terror of being Black in America. From his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi under the trauma of Jim Crow segregation to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wheeler steadily holds a mirror up to a nation drowning in a rising tide of white supremacy.

This is a come-to-Jesus book in every sense of that phrase. Grounded in scripture and engaging in scholarly conversation with voices such as Isabel Wilkerson and James Cone, Wheeler demonstrates how the wound of white supremacy fundamentally diminishes all of our humanity.

“US: The Resurrection of American Terror” offers a deeply vulnerable and piercing portrait of the human toll of white supremacy and points to the Cross as a place of hope and reconciliation. This is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the toxic and deadly interplay between anti-Blackness, nationalism, and Christianity in America. (Amazon.com)