Good Faith Book Club
Formed in 2012, the aim of the Good Faith Book Club was to provide a forum for people to explore and discuss matters of faith and what they believed. This was through the discussion of a book in a relaxed, convivial, non-threatening atmosphere. Everyone was welcome to come along and express their views or just listen over a cup of tea or coffee.
It ran for 11 years, meeting every other month and discussed 66 books, all of the group's choosing. Various members volunteered to summarise the discussions which follow on the next pages. A 'top ten' of the books, listed in the order we read them (recent to earliest), are:
Page 1 – The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
Page 2 – How to be a Bad Christian and a Better Human Being by Dave Tomlinson
Page 2 – The Badly Behaved Bible by Nick Page
Page 3 – Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
Page 4- What is The Bible? by Rob Bell
Page 5 – God's Undertaker: has science buried God? by John C. Lennox
Page 6 – The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba
Page 6 – I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Page 6 – The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
Page 8 – Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
Revd Richard Coles' book 'Fathomless Riches: how I went from Pop to Pulpit', was, we all felt, a fascinating although challenging book. This is Richard...
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All the members of the Good Faith Book Club agreed that this Marilynne Robinson book was very unusual. It was not divided into chapters, but was presented as a stream...
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This readable book was one which the group as a whole found both enlightening and challenging. It asked the question as to whether Paul was someone who appalled...
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There was quite a division in the response to this book by Francine Rivers. It was made up of a series of five portraits of women featured in the lineage of Jesus,...
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We agreed that the answer to the sub-title of this book, 'Has science buried God?' is a resounding NO! Oxford mathematician and scientist John Lennox provides...
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Exiles. Living Missionally in a post-Christian culture by Michael Frost produced one of the most animated discussions about a book that we have had since our group's...
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This is the story of Michael Lapsley, that he tells himself, of his journey as a New Zealander who trained as an Anglican friar in Australia and who then goes to...
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It was agreed that this was an illuminating book although the vocabulary was daunting. Borg describes two ways of reading the Bible as either believing that it is...
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Jesus and the Gospel Women is written by psychotherapist and Anglican priest Joanna Collicutt McGrath who confesses to some sympathy with feminism. McGrath wrote...
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