FBCD Events
Dolen Perkins Valdez’ Happy Land
Join us for an evening with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand. Perkins-Valdez will be in conversation with Tayari Jones to discuss her riveting new novel Happy Land, the story of a woman who learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom.
Conversations events are free, but registration is required. Click here to learn more.
Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock’s Leo’s Lunch Box
On April 19 at 2:00 pm (after our Easter Egg Hunt), join us in the Sanctuary for a Conversations event with Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock, who will be discussing his newest picture book, Leo's Lunch Box! This story is a timely tale of empathy, community, and caring for others. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
Conversations events are free, but registration is required. Click here to learn more.
V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Come celebrate V.E. Schwab's new novel, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil! V.E. Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Her newest, genre-defying novel is about immortality and hunger.
Conversations events are free, but registration is required. Click here to learn more.
Elaine Pagels’ Miracles and Wonder
From Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University Elaine Pagels, recipient of honors including the National Humanities Medal, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellowships, as well as both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, now comes the highly anticipated new book Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus, a spellbinding and deeply-researched epic that sets out to answer the question of how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
Conversations events are free, but registration is required. Click here to learn more.
Conversations with Rick Bragg
Best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg will be in our sanctuary Wednesday, September 22 at 7:30 PM to discuss his new book The Speckled Beauty.