Former Rockdalian Shari Seifert has written a book called Ashes to Action, Finding Myself at the Intersection of the Minneapolis Uprising.
“My book is focused on why and how Calvary Lutheran Church-Minneapolis, my congregation, was ready to meet the moment when George Floyd was murdered one block from our church,” she said Seifert was born in Lexington, came to Rockdale in the sixth grade and graduated RHS in 1983. She has lived in Minneapolis since 1989.
From the book cover: “After the world witnessed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a passionate uprising erupted, with the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago at its epicenter. One block away stood Calvary Lutheran Church, an ELCA congregation whose members had engaged in racial justice work for years. In Ashes to Action, Seifert provides her riveting firsts-person account of the events following May 25, 2020. Seifert joined others in the Calvary community to show up, listen and ask what was needed in the moment. As the lines between her congregation and neighborhood blurred, the way toward a faithful response became clearer. This personal narrative stays rooted in the context of community, immersing readers in the days, week and month following the uprising.”
The book will be available on Oct. 31 wherever books are sold. All of the proceeds from the book will given to the George Floyd Global Memorial.
Seifert and her wife, Melissa, have two grown boys James, 22, and Zackary, 19.
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