Winter’s the perfect time for reading – hot chocolate, warm fires, and maybe even some snow outside. We’re starting online book groups that will meet on Zoom, November through February. (Individual groups will make their own schedules.) Interested in leading a group? Contact Rev. Cara. Looking for ideas? Here’s a list of authors and titles to consider:
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Austin Channing Brown
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Marcus Borg
Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
Marcus Borg and N.T. Wright
The Meaning of Jesus
Gregory Boyles
Tattoos on the Heart
Walter Brueggemann
Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
Rachel Held Evans
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Wholehearted Faith
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning
How to be an Antiracist
Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
Kathleen Norris
The Cloister Walk
Richard Rohr
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy
Barbara Brown Taylor
Holy Envy
Leaving Church
Howard Thurman
Jesus and the Disinherited
Rowan Williams
Being Human
Lauren Winner
Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
Girl Meets God
— The Rev. Cara Ellen Modisett, Curate, Trinity Episcopal Church of Staunton
