Set in the rural South of the 1960's, THE HELP is a startling portrayal of the intertwined lives of women on opposite sides of the racial divide. Test what you read against your own experience and thinking… and consider what parallels exist today.   One in Christ encourages churches use The Help by Kathryn Stockett in Sunday School classes and book clubs to help people understand racial issues today in a Christian context. Target Month for All Presbytery Reads: February 2010 (flexible)   Discussion Questions are Now Available!  Click here. Check out the March 2, 2010 Charlotte Observer article that focuses on The Help.

Perhaps you remember a past year's book from All Presbytery Reads, Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson.  Now, it's a movie too!  

Jeb Stuart, son of a white Presbyterian minister in North Carolina that led a congregation during the height of a civil rights movement, found that something in Tyson's book "incredibly resonated" with him.  He then wrote and directed the movie, Blood Done Sign My Name, which opened in limited release on February 19th.

Read more about Jeb Stuart and his confrontation with his segregationist past in this article from the Presbyterian News Service.