Christians in Action Book Club
Do you love to read? Do you like to have conversations about the books you read? Has a book (other than the Bible) strengthened your faith? One of the hopes we have for Christians in Action Ministry is to build relationships across our congregations. With this in mind the CIA Book Club has formed. We meet the last week of the month over Zoomand'or in person depending on who is planning to attend. To join the Book Club list click below. Each month we will pick another book to read and discuss. Everyone is welcome!
Interested in joining the CIA Book Club and recieving the Zoom link? Click HERE
Interested in joining the CIA Book Club and recieving the Zoom link? Click HERE
Book of the Month for May: To be discussed between 5/28-5/31
"Everything Happens For A Reason: And Other Lies I Have Loved” by Kate Bowler
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son... Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
Click the image of this month's book to order from Amazon.com (available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook)
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son... Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
Click the image of this month's book to order from Amazon.com (available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook)
Book of the Month for June: To be discussed between 6/23-6/29
"Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times” by Bishop Michael Curry
As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.
Click the image of this month's book to order from Amazon.com (available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook)
As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.
Click the image of this month's book to order from Amazon.com (available in hardcover, ebook, or audiobook)