Writer and interfaith leader Chris Stedman to engage in series of campus events
Chris Stedman’s St. Olaf visit will include a chapel talk in the morning as well as an interview and Q&A session in the evening titled “What Can We Learn about Being Human from Life Online.”
St. Olaf College is excited to welcome author, educator, and organizer Chris Stedman for a series of virtual events on March 9. Stedman has received acclaim for his writings advocating the inclusion of non-religious people in interfaith efforts and dialogue. His most recent book, titled
IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, And Belonging In Our Digital Lives, is this winter’s All-Community Read sponsored by the St. Olaf Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community.
by Ijeoma Oluo
To be clear, there never was and never will be a time when Ijeoma Oluo’s new book
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy Of White Male America (Seal Press) isn’t relevant. But reading history-rich analysis of white male supremacy and its toxic repercussions from the author of
So You Want To Talk About Race on the same week that the living personification of white grievance stormed the U.S. Capitol was like finding the key in the back of a fantasy novel: Suddenly, the labyrinthine gibberish started to make sense. Throughout the book, Oluo lifts the hood on institutional racism and sexism, breaking down everything from how white backlash to Reconstruction influenced widespread housing discrimination and, in turn, racial wealth gaps to online “brocialists” and their allergy to female power. (Hint: White male identity politics are still identity politics.) One by one, Oluo holds up parts of these complex and insidious engines, demonstrating for readers how each piece,