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
Andrew Bradstock's authorised biography of David Sheppard, the England cricketer, and Anglican Bishop (1929-2005) gave us an insight into the man, his faith,...
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How to be a Bad Christian by Dave Tomlinson was a book that everyone in the Good Faith Book Club enjoyed! We found it easy-to read, well-organized and, in parts,...
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The book we had read this time, in the Good Faith Book Club, was 'The Badly Behaved Bible' by Nick Page. In his book he provides a modern perspective of...
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Miracle Children, The Toybox Story by Duncan Dyason is an uplifting story but also one which the group found challenging. As Anne Prendergast wrote Duncan was well...
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Crazy Christians – A radical way of life by Bishop Michael B. Curry was well-received by those present; most of us remembered Michael from his sermon at Prince...
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Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, we couldn't meet, so posted these individual reviews:
Frankie Fisher
I much preferred this book to the Timmy Mallett book....
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Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, we couldn't meet, so posted these individual reviews:
Angela Smith:
I was delighted at the beginning of Lock Down, to...
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Inner City Testament
John and Grace Vincent
This was a fascinating book and made much richer by having chapters by both authors independently. I did however find...
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Another Christ, by Andrew D. Mayes, which was quite well-received by the group, took eleven different traits of the character of Jesus, the man ,explored them and...
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