Spiritual Book Club - Just Mercy

Loyola Evening of Prayer – Spiritual Book Discussion – Just Mercy – A Story of Justice and Redemption 
by Bryan Stevenson

“Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument” – Reinhold Niebuhr



Please join our Loyola Spiritual Book discussion group as we read, explore, and faith share on Just Mercy – A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.
 
About the book  Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
 
About the author Bryan Steveson is a 1985 graduate of Harvard, with both a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a JD from the School of Law, Bryan Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at New York University School of Law in 1998. Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners in the deep south since 1985, when he was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1989, he has been executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a private, nonprofit law organization he founded that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. EJI litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct.
 
Meeting Dates at Loyola
 
Session Dates & Time
March 18^th, March 25^th, April 1^st,  April 8th
7:00pm -9:00pm
 
Session 1 -  March 18^th    -  Introduction – Old Rugged Cross (pgs. 3- 91)
Session 2 - March 25th – Of the Coming of John – All God’s Children (pgs. 92 -162)
Session 3 - April 1^st  – I’m Here – Mother, Mother (pgs. 163 – 241)
Session 4 - April 8^th – Recovery – Epilogue (pgs. 243 – 314)
Facilitated by Karen Florance