Easter Season Mini-Course: Christ, Collapse, and Coming

April 07, 2026, 7:30pm Eastern Time (US)

CLBSJ is excited to announce our first mini-course, led by James W. (“Jim”) Perkinson! Sessions will take place on Tuesday April 7, Tuesday April 14 and Tuesday April 21 from 7:30-9:00pm Eastern Time.

Jim will lead us in ushering in the Spring and the Easter liturgical season with an exploration of three earth-based and indigenized ways of understanding Christ: Lady Wisdom, The Vulnerable One, and Cloud Rider. This course will build on the overview of these Christological aspects which he provided during our Advent session “What are We Waiting For? Christ and the Earth”. Each session will unpack one of these aspects in detail, in conversation with eco-spiritual and indigenous perspectives crucial to understanding the way Jesus talked about apocalyptic change. We will then delve into the question of the relevance of these perspectives for our current times.

People of all faiths and backgrounds are warmly invited to participate in this exploration.
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Image: “Keep Awake” by Lauren Wright Pittman © A Sanctified Art

James W. (Jim) Perkinson is longtime activist, spoken-word poet, and teacher of Social Ethics at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary and Intercultural Communication at the University of Oakland (Michigan). He holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago, is the author of five books on theology/spirituality and two poetry chap books. He has also written extensively in both academic and popular journals on questions of race, class and colonialism in connection with religion and urban culture.