ADULT
Northridge aims to provide an open place where adults of all ages can dig deeper into their understandings of faith, share in meaningful conversation, and grow in relationships.
Weekday Classes: Tuesday Morning Bible Study meets on Zoom at 7:30 a.m.; Wired Word Study Group discusses current events and the Christian response on Zoom at 7:00 p.m.
Seasonal Offerings: Advent and Lent bring with them opportunities to deepen our faith each year. We will be offering book suggestions and additional opportunities for conversation during these special seasons.
Men’s Group: No matter your age or stage of life, you’re invited to monthly fellowship with the men of Northridge. Our Men’s Group meets on the second Friday of every month at Chubby’s at 7:00 a.m. for conversation and food – it’s always a meaningful (and delicious) time.
Presbyterian Women in Northridge (PWIN): Our Night Owl circle meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. (contact: Laura Coomber, [email protected]); our Day Circle meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. (contact: Helen Stevenson, [email protected]; Christy Mayfield, [email protected]).
This year, our Horizon Bible Study is reading “What My Grandmothers Taught Me: Learning from the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus.”
Financial gifts support Presbyterian Women at the local, regional, national, and global level. In-kind donations support our local partners: Children’s Medical Treatment Closet, Hope Supply Co., and Hotchkiss Elementary.
Watch for annual events, including the Women’s Christmas (December 19), Women’s Luncheon (TBD), and our Hope Supply Co. work shift October 9-11 (contact Linda Buchanan at [email protected]).
Racial Justice Resources
Watch
Holy Post – Race in America (17 minutes)
Engaging Young People In Conversations About Race: A Tale of Two Mothers
Holy Imagination + Race (98 minutes)
How the church can be a healing force in America’s racial divide.
This is Us
Dr. Eddie Glaude explains why blaming current racial tensions on Donald Trump misses the point. (3 minutes)
Racism is Real
A split-screen video depicting the differential in the white and black lived experience. (3 minutes)
Confronting ‘intergroup anxiety’: Can you try too hard to be fair?
Explores why we may get tongue tied and blunder when we encounter people from groups unfamiliar to us. (5 minutes)
CBS News Analysis: 50 states, 50 different ways of teaching America’s past
Ibram X. Kendi reviews current history curriculum production and use across the U.S. (5 minutes)
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
An “Adam Ruins Everything” episode that quickly and humorously educates how redlining came to be. (6 minutes)
What Kind of Asian Are You?
Humorous two minute YouTube video that illustrates the utter silliness of the way many white Americans interact with Asian Americans. (2 minutes)
Birth of a White Nation
Keynote speech by legal scholar Jacqueline Battalora, offers a blow-by-blow description of the moment the idea of, and word for, “white” people entered U.S. legal code. (36 minutes)
13th
Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay about the connection between US Slavery and the present day mass incarceration system. (1 hour, 40 minutes)
How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
TED Talk by Vernā Myers, encourages work vigorously to counter balance bias by connecting with and learning about and from the groups we fear. (19 minutes)
The danger of a single story
TED Talk by Chimamanda Adiche, offers insight to the phenomenon of using small bits of information to imagine who a person is. (18 minutes)
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
TED Talk by Baratunde Thurston that explores patterns revealing our racist framing, language, and behaviors. (10 minutes)
Indigenous People React to Indigenous Representation in Film And TV
Conversation with a diverse range of Indigenous people by FBE about media depictions of Indigenous people, Columbus day, and Indigenous identity. (15 minutes)
Tyler Merrit Project: Before You Call (3 minutes)
Read
10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools, by Jamie Utt
21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis, by Heben Nigatu
Climbing the White Escalator, by Betsy Leondar-Wright
Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person, by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
Guide to Allyship, Created by Amélie Lamont
It’s Not Just the South: Here’s How Everyone Can Resist White Supremacy, by Sarah van Gelder
Making America White Again, by Toni Morrison
Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro
What White Children Need to Know About Race, by Ali MIchael and Elenora Bartoli
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
Presbytery of Charlotte letter from Antiracism Team
My President Was Black, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Caught Up In God, by Willie James Jennings
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?, by Ibram X Kendi
Listen
Code Switch, hosted by journalists Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji
Black Like Me, host Dr. Alex Gee
Scene on Radio – Seeing White Series, host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika
TED Radio Hour – Mary Bassett: How Does Racism Affect Your Health?
Host Guy Raz speaks with Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Here & Now – Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power?
Host Jeremy Hobson and author Edward Baptist
NPR Morning Edition – You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration
Journalist Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas
Pod Save the People
Activism. Social Justice. Culture. Politics. On Pod Save the People, organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson
Notice
Test Your Awareness: Do The Test
This video shows us the importance of paying attention, and how much more we see when we are looking for particular things around us.
Use each question below separately as one day’s challenge.
- Who is and is not represented in ads?
- What are the last five books you read? What is the racial mix of the authors?
- What is the racial mix of the main characters in your favorite TV shows? Movies?
- Who is filling what kinds of jobs/social roles in your world? Can you correlate any of this to racial identity?
