It’s time for our first-ever New Wineskins Summer Book Study!

Starting this Sunday, June 1, we’ll be gathering in the Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom from 6:00-7:30pm EDT the first Sunday of each month to discuss Robin Wall Kimmerer’s runaway bestseller, Braiding Sweetgrass.

As a botanist, teacher, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer infuses her storytelling with indigenous wisdom to help us see how all things are connected, and how our own destiny as the human species is intricately interwoven with our planet and its non-human inhabitants.

From the book’s page on the Milkweed Editions website:

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.

Here’s our Summer Book Study schedule:

Sunday, June 1: Setting the stage: introduction to Braiding Sweetgrass (no reading required)

Sunday, July 6: Sections 1 & 2 (Planting Sweetgrass, Tending Sweetgrass)

Sunday, Aug. 3: Sections 3 & 4 (Picking Sweetgrass, Braiding Sweetgrass)

Sunday, Sept. 7: Section 5 & Epilogue (Burning Sweetgrass, Returning the Gift)

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Braiding Sweetgrass is available through most major booksellers. Below is a link we like to Milkweed Editions:

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6:00pm ET: Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time)
6:30pm ET: Book study begins

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