Book Group

The OLOS Book Group meets one Sunday afternoon a month, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Bullock Center.  We discuss books that broadly deal with spiritual or religious themes, including a mixture of fiction, spirituality, memoir and biography.  

All are welcome.  We spend a few minutes at the beginning of each meeting introducing ourselves, so if you haven't come before, don't be shy!  New faces are always welcome.  

June 26, 2022 (online) -- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man
Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder

July 24, 2022 (online)-- The Our Father: A New Reading by Gerhard Lohfink

August 28, 2022 (online) -- The Abbey: A Story of Discovery by James Martin, S.J.

September 25, 2022 (in person) – The Smile of a Ragpicker: The Life of Satako Kitahara -
Convert and Servant of the Slums of Tokyo by Fr. Paul Glynn

October 23, 2022 (in person) -- Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone by James Martin, S.J.

November 20, 2022 (online?) -- The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

December 18, 2022 (online?)-- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by
Suleika Jaouad

January 22, 2023 (online?) -- River of Fire by Sister Helen Prejean

February 26, 2023 (online?) -- Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Gregory
Boyle

March 26, 2023 (in person?) -- My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir by Colleen Carroll
Campbell
April 23, 2023 (in person) -- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

May 21, 2023 (in person) -- A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a
Faith by Timothy Egan

2021-2022
Jesus: A Pilgrimage,  by James Martin, S.J.

At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life by Fenton Johnson

The Time is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage by Joan Chittister, O.S.B.

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

The Road of Hope: A Gospel from Prison by Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan

Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as a Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Teacher, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

2020-2021

Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans 

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departed by Bronnie Ware 

Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine by Max Lucado

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin and “Previous Condition”, a short story by James Baldwin. The entire short story is available here and the full 30 minute audiobook version of the short story is here. The Fire Next Time is available from Amazon and other booksellers. 

Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle 

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr 

This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World by Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory 

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection 

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

2019-2020

The Second Mountain, David Brooks

Refugee by Alan Gratz

A Prayer Journal, Flannery O’Connor

The Shack, William P. Young

Shortest Way Home

An Infinity of Little Hours, Nancy Klein Mcguire

Do No Harm, Henry Marsh