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.  

July 25, 2021 -- Jesus: A Pilgrimage, Chapters 1-12 by James Martin, S.J.

August 22, 2021 -- Jesus: A Pilgrimage, Chapters 13-25 by James Martin, S.J.

September 26, 2021 -- At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life by Fenton Johnson

October 24, 2021 -- The Time is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage by Joan Chittister, O.S.B.

November 28, 2021 -- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

December 26, 2021 -- The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander

January 23, 2022 -- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

February 27, 2022 -- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

March 27, 2022 -- The Road of Hope: A Gospel from Prison by Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan

April 24, 2022 -- Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as a Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Teacher, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

May 22, 2022 -- 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