Racial Healing Book Study

On Monday, June 15th, members of Saint Andrew's will join members of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and the good people of All Saints' Homewood for a weekly book study of the late theologian Dr. James Cone's remarkable work The Cross and the Lynching Tree (2011), a meditation on the historical, symbolic, and spiritual connections between the cross on which Jesus died and the "lynching tree" on which thousands of Black Americans were murdered.

The study is part of All Saints' weekly Monday School, which devotes safe space to engage in the ongoing work of racial healing and reconciliation. We will gather at All Saints' in the Parish Hall at 6:00 p.m. The address is 110 W. Hawthorne Rd., Homewood, AL 35209

All are warmly welcome. This is an important opportunity to invest faithfully in the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to us in Christ and to deepen our understanding of the enduring relationship between Christian faith and racial justice.

For more information, please contact Fr. Peter Helman (rector@standrewsbham.org).

A copy of the book may be purchased here:

For those interested, below is a wonderful lecture by Dr. Cone on The Cross and the Lynching Tree: the Fred D. Gray Plenary Lecture in Human and Civil Rights, delivered at Lipscomb University in 2017.