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 Good Faith Book Club's next choice is Does Religion do More Harm than Good? by Rupert Shortt.
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For this book, individuals were asked for their personal brief, overall impressions...
1. I was struck by the way that the author did not set out with a plan to...
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This month the book club had read Pope Francis' encyclical entitled Laudato Si. (Praise be to you) taken from a prayer of St Francis of Assisi, whose love and...
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All the members present at a meeting of the Good Faith Book Club, agreed that this short book was easy to read and several of them had read it through thoughtfully...
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There were varied responses to this book by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Some found the vocabulary daunting; others could not get all through; some found it beyond...
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On Saturday 26 January twelve avid Good-Faith book readers met to discuss Marcus Borg's book "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time." We all agreed,...
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Written during his sabbatical in the Obama presidency, Jim Wallis's On God's Side forensically, or as one of our number preferred, depressingly, analysed...
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Most of the books we read and discuss are non-fiction of varying kinds, but this book is a novel. This proved a turn-off for two of our members, but the rest of...
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Having already read – and in the main – enjoyed, Nadia Bolz-Weber's book 'Accidental Saints', we decided it would be good to read her earlier book, which...
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