Book Discussion Group

The book club discussion group is on summer break and will resume in early September.

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.

New Book Coming soon.

Current Discussion:

Meeting ID: 886 2715 7442 Passcode: 845069

Tentative Reading Schedule:

Sept // Dates coming soon.

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