Jesus & Liberation Reading Group
Mon, Oct 20
|Asheville
join CSP to read books about a Jesus that liberates
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Asheville, 1022 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806, USA
About the event
Join CSP to discuss Brenda Salter MacNeil's book Empowered for Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities. In October we will discuss chapters 1-2.
"In Empowered to Repair, Brenda Salter McNeil looks to the biblical story of Nehemiah for answers. There, she finds an action-based model for repairing and rebuilding our communities and transforming broken systems.
McNeil goes beyond theories, offering practical tools Christians need for organizing, empowering, and activating people to join in God's work of equality, reparations, and justice. She provides strategies to drive systemic changes that go beyond superficial diversity and teaches the skills needed to engage in this important work long-term, such as organizing people, leveraging resources, and avoiding burnout through rest, prayer, and self-care.
Learning from Nehemiah, readers will be emboldened to go out and help build congregations, organizations, and communities where all people can flourish and reach their full, God-given…
