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The St. Barnabas Book Club might return in Fall 2024.  If you would like to organize the book club please contact Judi Horjus judihorjus@yahoo.com

Discussing a book together is a great way to get to know each other and can spark interesting conversation. The St. Barnabas Book Club meets one Sunday a month, September-November and January-May. We discuss a different book each month from a variety of titles that have been suggested by and voted on by the group. We meet from 1:30 - 3:00 via Zoom. Zoom links are available here: https://barnabasencourager.org/services-and-access

Group members take turns leading our discussion. All adults are welcome at any time!

Below is the current schedule and also books we've read in the past.

Questions?  Contact Judi Horjus judihorjus@yahoo.com

 

Our upcoming schedule of book club selections:

September 18, 2022

Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

by Rachel Held Evans

 

October 16, 2022

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

 

November 13, 2022

The Four Vision Quests of Jesus

by Steven Charleston

 

January 15, 2023

Riverman: An American Odyssey

by Ben McGrath

 

February 12, 2023

West With Giraffes

by Lynda Rutledge

 

March 12, 2023

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

by Susan Cain

 

April 16, 2023

The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

 

May 21, 2023

The Tao of Pooh

by Benjamin Hoff


 

What we’ve read in the past…

2021/2022

November 21, 2021

Into the Beautiful North

by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

December 5, 2021

What is God Like?

by Rachel Held Evans and Matthew

Paul Turner

 

January 16, 2022

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

 
 

February 20, 2022

Evidence Not Seen

by Darlene Diebler Rose

 

March 20, 2022

Refugee

by Alan Gratz

 

April 24, 2022

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

 

May 15, 2022

Braiding Sweet Grass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer


2019/2020

Feb. 16 Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
March 15 Replenishing the Earth by Wangari Maathai
April 19 Driftless by David Rhodes
May 17 Etty Hillesum: a Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse

Sept. 15 Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Oct. 13 Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Nov. 10 Simply Jesus by N. T. Wright
Jan. 19 The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel


2018/2019

September 9 Whom Having Not Seen We Love by Rachel Edwardsen Mitchell

October 14 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

November 18 Man Seeks God: My Flirtations With the Divine by Eric Weiner

January 13 We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Daniel Whiteson and Jorge Cham

February 17 The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

March 10 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

April 7 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

May 19 Everything Happens for a Reason and other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler


2017/2018

September 10 The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

October 15 Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

November 12 Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

January 14 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: a Memoir by Sherman Alexi

February 11 The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

March 11 Silence: a Novel by Shusaku Endo

April 15 The Faith Club: a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew- three women search for understanding by R. Idliby, S. Oliver, P. Warner

May 13 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah