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 Kendra Adachi
Kendra Adachi: Join us for an evening with bestselling author and nationally-ranked podcaster Kendra Adachi! She'll be here to celebrate the release of her new book, The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius. The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her signature Kind Big Sister Energy to a practical time management book for people weary of productivity but eager to live a good life.
This event is free to attend, but registration is required – click here to sign up!
Rebecca Ross with Roshani Chokshi - Divine Rivals & Ruthless Vows
Celebrate the conclusion of the epic Letters of Enchantment duology with Rebecca Ross and Roshani Chokshi! If you or a loved one have been personally victimized by the DEVASTATING cliffhanger at the end of Divine Rivals, then we have fantastic news for you! The absolutely beautiful conclusion of the Letters of Enchantment duology, Ruthless Vows, is coming, and we’re throwing a party to celebrate!!!!! Join us and our friends at Georgia Center for the Book for an author event extravaganza as author Rebecca Ross talks all things Divine Rivals/Ruthless Vows with our bookish bestie Roshani Chokshi! If you want to get in on all the fun, click here! (Tickets are free but required.)
Conversations: A Renaissance of Our Own
A Renaissance of Our Own
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-renaissance-of-our-own-an-evening-with-rachel-e-cargle-tickets-608810457467
From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.
Conversations: The Covenant of Water
The Covenant of Water
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abraham-verghese-discusses-the-covenant-of-water-tickets-615275835587
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone (published in 2009) that became a literary phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies in the United States and remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.
Conversations: Chain Gang All Stars
Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-and-tayari-jones-discuss-chain-gang-all-stars-tickets-597014966837
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – author of The New York Times bestselling debut Friday Black – is back with an action-packed, visionary, and wholly unique new novel. Chain Gang All Stars centers on two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system (not so far-removed from America’s own).
Tayari Jones – A New York Times best-selling author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage published in 2018
Conversations: More Than I Imagined
More Than I Imagined…What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/john-blake-discusses-more-than-i-imagined-tickets-615280629927
An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together. Blake covered some of the biggest stories about race in America for twenty-five years before realizing that “facts don’t change people, relationships do.” He only discovered that after experiencing what he calls “radical integration.” It was the only way forward for him and his family—and it’s the only way forward for America as a multiracial democracy. More Than I Imagined is a hopeful story for our difficult times.
Conversations: Buried Truths Live
Registration: https://www.wabe.org/events/buried-truths-live-race-rage-in-terrible-terrell/
[NOTE: This event will start at 6:30 pm, not 7:00 pm.] Buried Truths focuses on civil rights cold cases in Georgia and how they can enlighten our understanding of today’s society, particularly on matters of race. This season focuses on the murder of a young black man by police in 1958 in Dawson, Georgia. The reason for his murder? They did not like that he was driving a nicer car than they did. This crime is used to illustrate the plight of the Black citizens of Terrell County under a reign of terror conducted by the police and sheriff.
The May 2 event will feature Hank Klibanoff recapping the season and having a conversation with family members of both the victims and perpetrators to see how a violent hate crime can reverberate for generations with dire impact. Additionally, this event will have a musical performance---singer/songwriter Caroline Herring will debut a song she wrote inspired by this season of Buried Truths.
