RVUUF’s Adult Programs will host a presentation and discussion led by Stephen Conclin on this year’s “Common Read,” Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, at noon Sunday, April 24, in Emerson House next door to RVUUF.

According to a biographical note on the UUA website, Stevenson “has dedicated his legal career to defending those who are trapped by an often capricious, political, and willfully unjust criminal justice system — poor people, people of color, children, and others over whom the system has run roughshod.”

The book’s selection as the UUA’s Common Read “speaks to justice, mercy, and compassion, themes of concern to us as Unitarian Universalists and as human beings. It follows on recent Common Reads, such as The New Jim Crow and Reclaiming Prophetic Witness, and responds to recent statements passed by the delegates to the UUA General Assembly.”