Vacation Bible Study: Revelation
With Jean Jeffress
August 3 - 31, 2025
Kirkridge is pleased to cosponsor this book study with Plymouth UCC Jazz & Justice Church in Oakland, CA
Vacation Bible Study – The book of Revelation thru the lens of Can I Get a Witness
Cosponsored by Plymouth UCC Jazz and Justice Church and Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center
Weekly on Sundays, August 3, 10, 17, 31
1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET
Join in person or on Zoom
We will dive into Revelation using Brian K. Blount’s book, Can I Get A Witness: Reading Revelation Through African American Culture as an interpretive guide.
“In the provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation’s context and the long-suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book’s complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering amidst oppressive assimilation and that witnessing was the ethic by which John wished people to live.
Each session will be 90 minutes.
We will meet in person in Oakland, CA and on zoom. You will receive the Zoom link shortly before the first session.
Leader
Rev. Jean Jeffress (she/they) is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and currently serves as the Associate Pastor at Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church in Oakland, CA. As a queer pastor, Jean is always working to pry up the dusty floorboards of lazy, tired interpretations of the biblical text. Rooted in biblical study and committed to liberative imagination, Jean seeks to make the bible accessible (even the terrible texts) to anyone who is interested. They have work published in The Expositor & Review, Resipiscence: A Lenten Devotional to Dismantle White Supremacy, GEEZ Magazine, as well as…
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