The St. Barnabas Book Club might return in Fall 2024. If you would like to organize the book club please contact the Parish Administrator office@saint-barnabas.net
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.
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