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
The book blurb says, "In this fascinating book, Glen Scrivener takes readers on a journey to discover how the teachings of Jesus not only turned the ancient...
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Lee Strobel's 'The Case for Hope: Looking ahead with confidence and courage', was not a popular read with members but did stimulate our thinking and...
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The Shack by William Paul Young – Good Faith Book Club Review
The overall opinion of this book was a positive one, although nearly everyone had reservations about...
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The Power of Women – a doctor's journey of hope and healing by Dr Denis Mugwege is the Good Faith Book Club's choice for our Saturday, 28th May meeting....
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There seemed to be agreement with the title of this interesting book, including with its subtitle "Why God desires our trust more than our 'correct'...
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"At the beginning, Simon Lawton says that this book is not for anyone suffering clinical depression. There are people who might be helped by it, those perhaps...
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A Different Kind of Daughter – Maria Toorpakai
with Katherine Holstein
This was a book which everyone (apart from one member who had not finished it) had...
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'Living Jesus' John Pritchard
We all agreed that this was a book that was easy to read, flowing well from chapter to chapter. No one agreed with the whole...
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This was a book about which we had mixed feelings. Two of us thought the beginning was disappointing, but that there were some better bits later. I confess I did...
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