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
This is an inspirational story about the author, William, who as a boy went to school initially and developed a love of science. After making a small income with...
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Malala Yousafzai, the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban co-wrote this book with the award-winning journalist Christina Lamb. The group...
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This book lived up to its title, being just 139 pages long, including appendices and index. But its brevity proved deceptive, and Peter Green, who had suggested...
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The group considered this to be a unique book as no-one knew of another book about Autism written by a severely autistic person themselves. Most present had no real...
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This book received wide acclaim in reviews for its honesty but received wide complaints in our discussion for its writing style. Whilst a very literary book with...
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We enjoyed this book and found the letter to the 7/7 Bomber Shehzad Tanweer in the final chapter to be moving and a testament to the author's ability in the...
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Several members had a common experience of a difficult early read becoming an enjoyable one. Using excerpts of the numerous letters Galileo's daughter wrote...
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There is not often such unanimity as there was at our best-attended meeting so far, in our response to this book of theology that covers most of the key aspects...
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Whilst we all enjoyed learning about Tom Chapman, there was general agreement that the story was not very well told, and that we really wanted to know a lot more...
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