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
FOR GOOD -- The Church and the Future of Welfare by Samuel Wells with Russell Rook and David Barclay was discussed on Saturday at the Good Faith Book Club. Although...
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This was a book that led to a lot of lively discussion. Some members of the group found the informal style in which the book was written was too alien for them,...
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The book is Rev. Ray Gaston's account of his engagement with Islam in the majority Muslim population of the Inner City Leeds parish in which he ministered for...
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What a marvellous book! It is written by a Lutheran pastor in Denver, Colorado USA. She is no ordinary pastor, but in early life struggled with drugs, alcohol and...
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"A Luta Continua... (The Struggle Continues) " by Rev. David Haslam
This book certainly aroused strong feelings! It was found to be both fascinating,...
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Of all the books we have read over the last five years, I believe that Richard Rohr's Falling Upward has created the most disagreement. Part-way through, he...
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Some of us have been in prison, albeit in support of various former ministers who were part-time chaplains at Aylesbury, Bedford or Grendon Underwood prisons. Yet,...
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This is an unusual book but one which everyone found inspiring in both its subject matter and in the two people at the heart of the book. It tells of the meeting...
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This was one of the shortest books we have looked at, but it generated a lot of discussion. It described the very practical work of the volunteers who went out at...
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