Past Book Club Selections


Women's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2007:
     January: Can a Smart Person Believe in God by Michael Guillen
     February: Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
     March: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright
     April: Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
     May: no meeting
     June: A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David by Beth Moore
     July: A Guest in God's World: Memories of Madagascar by Patsy McGregor
     August: Movie Night - we'll watch a film at group, and discuss afterwards!
     September:
     October:
     November:
     December: no meeting

Women's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2006:
     January: The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
     February: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
     March: The Wounded Healer by Henri Houwen
     April: **Poetry Month** Featured author: Mary Oliver
     May: The Meal Jesus Gave Us by N.T. Wright
     June: Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
     July: I Saw the Lord: A Wake-Up Call for Your Heart by Anne Graham Lotz
     August: The Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado
     September: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
     October: Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
     November: The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
     December: no meeting

Women's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2005:
     February: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
     March: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
     April: **Rector’s Choice Month** Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
     May: Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues by Mark Eddy Smith
     June: Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? by Charlene Ann Baumbich
     July: **Poetry Month** Water Lines: New and Selected Poems by Luci Shaw
     August: Blessings by Anna Quindlen
     September: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
     October: **Movie Month** Luther (2004, dir. by Eric Till)
     November: Shepherds Abiding: A Mitford Christmas Story by Jan Karon
     December: no meeting

Women's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2004:    
     January: Nine Parts Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
     February: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
     March: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
     April: The Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
     May: When God Whispers Your Name by Max Lucado
     June: Jesus, The One and Only by Beth Moore
     July: Opening the Bible by Roger Ferlo
     August: Heaven by Joni Eareckson Tada
     September: The Lord is My Shepherd by William Barclay
     October: Praying the Hours by Suzanne Guthrie
     November: Women in the Maze by Ruth Tucker
     December: no meeting

Women's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2003:
    
April: When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd
     May: The Practice of Prayer (New Church's Teaching Series) by Margaret Guenther
     June: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
     July: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle
     August: Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
     September: Under Her Wings by Kathy Bence
     October: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
     November: Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
     December: Dear Heart, Come Home: The Path of Midlife Spirituality by Joyce Rupp

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Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2007:
     
January: Faith that Endures: Essential Guide to the Persecuted Church by Ronald Boyd-MacMillan and Brother Andrew
     February: The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible In the Global South by Philip Jenkins
     March: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by NT Wright
     April: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Leslie Newbigin
     May: Eat This Word: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene Peterson
     June: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence For Belief by Francis S. Collins
     July: Dawkin’s God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life by Alister McGrath
     August: Where God was Born by Bruce Feiler
     September: Everyman’s Guide to Hebrews by NT Wright
     October: Praying: Finding our way through Duty to Delight by Carolyn Nystrom and J.I. Packer
     November: Beyond Belief: Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels
     December: no meeting

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2006:
     January: Ears to Hear by Edward S. Little
     February: Messianic Christology by Arnold Fruchtenbaum
     March: Studies In The Sermon On The Mount:
               God's Character And The Believer's Conduct by Oswald Chambers
     April: Can a Smart Person Believe in God? by Michael Guillen
     May: Reasons of the Heart: Recovering Christian Persuasion by William Edgar
     June: Thirsting For God in a Land of Shallow Wells by Matthew Gallatin
     July: Knowing Scripture by Robert Charles Sproul
     August: Christ's Call to Discipleship by James Montgomery Boice
     September: Concise Theology by J. I. Packer: Reformed theological commentary
     October: Exodus: Why Americans Are Fleeing Liberal Churches
                  for Conservative Christianity by Dave Shiflett
     November: Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2005:
     
February: The Testament by John Grisham
     March: The Message of Acts: The Spirit, the Church, and the World by John R. W. Stott
     April: Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12) by Tim F. Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
     May: On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom by St. John Chrysostom, Robert Van De Weyer
     June: The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesteton
     July: A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
     August: The Meal Jesus Gave Us by N.T. Wright
     September: Credo: Meditations on the Apostle's Creed by Hans Urs Von Balthasar
     October: Knowing God by J.I. Packer
     November: Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2004:
     January: In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible by Alister E. McGrath
     February: Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will by R. C. Sproul
     March: A Guide to Understanding the Bible by Harry Emerson Fosdick
     April: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
     May: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
     June: Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
     July: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
     August: Mysteries of Faith by Mark McIntosh
     September: The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions by Marcus J. Borg & N.T. Wright
     October: What Makes Us Episcopalians? by John E. Booty
     November: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
     December: no meeting

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2003:
     January: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
     February: The Meaning of Prayer by Harry Fosdick
     March: I, Francis by Carlo Carretto
     April: Intellectuals Don't Need God - and Other Modern Myths by Alister E. McGrath
     May: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments by Joy Davidman
     June: Silence by Shusaku Endo
     July: *Rector's Choice* The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church by Paul McKechnie
     August: Pilgrims in their Own Land - 500 Years of Religion in America by Martin E. Marty
     September: Can you Drink the Cup? by Henry Houwen
     October: Revelations of Divine Love by Julian Norwich
     November: Paradise Lost by John Milton
     December: no meeting

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2002:
    
 A People Called Episcopalians by John H. Westerhoff
     The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri J.M. Nouwen
     The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop
     The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawerence
     Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis
     The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
     Meeting Jesus for the First Time by Marcus Borg
     Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
     Betrayed by Stan Telchin
     Interior Castles by St. Teresa of Avila
     Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Men's Book Discussion Group - books read in 2001:
     The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
     In Heaven as On Earth by M. Scott Peck
     Paul by Walter Wangerin
     The Good Book by Peter Gomes
     Mere Christianity by C.S.Lewis
     The Gift of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
     The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey
     The Sparrow by Doria Russell
     Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey