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News & Updates
Watch this space for the latest Wilshire news. Check the Events section for information on upcoming events. You can also subscribe to our two weekly emails; Tapestry News, sent Fridays, includes news and a worship preview, while the Monday Recap has links to videos and blog posts from the prior week.
Antiracism Films and TV Series
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018) Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) Selma (Ava Duvernay, 2014) 13th (Ava Duvernay, 2016). When They See Us (Ava...
Antiracism Books
Recommended Books Nonfiction Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindedness. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Brown, Austin Channing. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a...
Preparing for Worship
The pious among us will say they had to be in worship this week. The events of recent days have been so overwhelming as to drive them to their knees in prayer. The less pious among us will wonder how they could muster the courage for worship this week. The events of...
Preparing for Worship
In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy … (Acts 2:17a) I have a brother who is 17 months younger than I and a sister who is younger by five years. By the time we became...
Second COVID-19 Report to Congregation – May 28, 2020
This is the second report to the congregation from Wilshire’s COVID-19 Advisory Task Force. We are seeking to keep the congregation informed as we continue our work of evaluation and recommendation. First, the task force expresses its gratitude to the 344 congregants...
History lesson
At the dinner table recently I asked our parents if they had a sense that they were living in historic times during the Great Depression and World War II, and if so, do they feel that same way now during the pandemic? I told them I was asking because my own belief is...