Author event: Rev. Dr. Kenneth Wheeler

Rev. Dr. Kenneth Wheeler, author of US: The Resurrection of American Terror, will speak about racial issues in the US at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17 at First Lutheran Church Hospitality Hall, 364 E. Water St.

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.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.

Pastor Wheeler will also be preaching at First Lutheran Church at 9:30 am with book discussion time following the service.

The event is sponsored by First Lutheran Church in conjunction with the Galesburg Chapter, NAACP and the Northern IL Synod of the ELCA.