Book Discussion Group
Resuming on September 3rd.
Wednesdays, 7:00-8:15pm, Zoom
These gatherings are a connective time to engage books and one another on various spiritual topics. Our goal is to support one another as we each discover and express God’s Love.
Common Ground
How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation by Eileen Flanagan
Current Discussion:
In Common Ground, veteran organizer Eileen Flanagan weaves together a series of stories of hard won successes in the climate change movement, including against a multinational bank in one case, and a heavily polluting fossil fuel company in another, based on grassroots organizing.
As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, the book describes a groundswell of action in which citizens of all ages, races and political stripes struggle to understand each other and the enormous challenges we face fighting companies and governments wilfully blind to the climate change dangers we face as a society.
Meeting ID: 886 2715 7442 Passcode: 845069
Tentative Reading Schedule:
Sept 3 // Foreword & Introduction
Sept 10 // Ch. 1: A Clash of Worldviews
Sept 17 // Ch. 2: Power Without Love
Sept 24 // Ch. 3: What’s Race Got to Do With It?
Oct 1 // Ch. 4: Dividing the Spectrum of Allies
Oct 8 // Ch. 5: Navigating the Currents of Race
Oct 15 // Ch. 6: All Our Relations
Oct 22 // Ch. 7: Just Transition
Oct 29 // Ch. 8: Oneness and Difference Globally
Nov 5 // Ch. 9-10: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic & Applying the Lessons in the Vanguard Campaign
Our Most Recent (and Recommended) Books
Randy & Edith Woodley, Journey to Eloheh: How Indigenous Values Lead Us to Harmony and Well-Being
Matthew Fox’s Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times: Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
Danya Ruttenberg’s On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
Mark Russ’s Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson’s All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Amy Kenny’s My Body is Not a Prayer Request
Cherice Bock’s A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends
Brian McLaren’s Should I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
Kristen Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Richard Rohr’s The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Living Buddha, Living Christ
Melissa Florer-Bixler’s How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger & the Work of Peace
Joan Chittister’s The Time is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage
Phuc Luu’s Jesus of the East: Reclaiming the Gospel for the Wounded
Walter Brueggemann’s Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World
Kaitlin Curtice’s Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
Marcelle Martin’s Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey
Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Rachel Held Evans’ Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Barbara Brown Taylor’s Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others