Book Group

book group

Join our lively and interesting group of readers!

This summer, we’ll be meeting in the common room at Bethany on the fourth Monday of each month, June to October, from 2 to 4 pm.

Our 2024 Reads…

  • June 24:  The Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery
  • July 22: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by Tim Alberta
    This month only, we’ll start at 1:30 pm.
  • August 26: Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us Into the Sacred, by Victoria Loorz
  • September 23: The Four Vision Quests of Jesus, by Steven Charleston

Our 2023 Reads

  • One Long River of Song, by Brian Doyle
  • Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
  • Good Enough: 40ish Devotions for a Life of Imperfection, by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie
  • Do I Stay Christian? by Brian McLaren
  • In The Shelter: Finding a Home in the World, by Padraig Ó Tuama

Our 2022 Reads

  • Short Stories by Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine. 
  • Prayer in the Night, by Tish Harrison Warren. 
  • The Book of Joy, by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama.
  • Shifting Shorelines, by Terry Helwig. 
  • Wholehearted Faith, by Rachel Held Evans and Jeff Chu.

Our 2021 Reads

  • Love is the Way, by Michael Curry
  • The Universal Christ, by Richard Rohr
  • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Why Being Yourself Is A Bad Idea (and Other Countercultural Notions), by Graham Tomlin

Our 2020 Reads

  • Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I’m Still Here, by Austin Channing Brown
  • A Pilgrimage to Eternity, by Timothy Egan
  • Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy
  • The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing And Why, by Phyllis Tickle

Our 2019 Reads

  • Insprired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, by Rachel Held Evans
  • The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian, by Brian McLaren
  • The Shack, by William P. Young