Brain Food Book Study
The book study meets every other Wednesday evening from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m., at Barnes and Noble Bookstore at Fallen Timbers Mall with Rev. Murr as the facilitator. Each book is chosen carefully and thoughtfully with the expectation that readers will be compelled to think a bit deeply and, often, outside their comfort zones. The books alternate between fiction and nonfiction, with each book discussion lasting four weeks. The schedule and book titles are available at Barnes and Noble and here on our website. Everyone is welcome, and many participants are not members of the church but join us through the bookstore.
Next Book Discussion:
The Case for God - Karen Armstrong: A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? (amazon.com)
Barnes & Nobel Bookstore, Fallen Timbers
Wednesday evenings 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
January 11 and 25, February 8 and 29, March 14, 2012
Facilitator: Rev. Barry Murr
