Book Club Summer 2026

Here are the choices for this summer's reading. You can find out more about each selection if you click on the title which is in blue.

After you decide, please email Liz (rev.elizabeth.goodman@gmail.com) with your top three preferences, in order of preference, 1 your favorite and 3 your least. Get your votes in by Monday, July 6.

• Rowan Williams, Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer. 92 pages. (English, Anglican.) 

  
  

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, in which much of Matthew’s gospel comes to bear and which Hauerwas quoted a lot. (German, early 20th c.) 

  
  

•  Leif Enger, Peace Like a River, 312 pgs.  A novel.

  
  

• Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant, 142 pgs. 

  
  

• Fleming Rutledge, Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Sermons from Paul's Letter to the Romans.  Sermons from the 70s and 80s. 128 pages long. (American, UCC.)

  
  

• The Just War Tradition: An Introduction (American Ideals & Institutions) by David D. Corey (Author), J. Daryl Charles (Author)

  
  

While we decide on a book, we'll read the following essays, which I've pulled from some recent magazine reading. If you click on each of these, a file will download to your computer which you could then click on to read on your screen or to print out.

For July 6:

Battle Hymn from the Atlantic.pdf

Download PDF • 2.89MB

For July 13

Running in Circles--DBH Baseball.pdf

Download PDF • 181KB

For July 20:

AI as Christian Heresy.pdf

Download PDF • 180KB

For July 27:

Whose Christian nationalism.pdf

Download PDF • 368KB

Iran War; our Stupid Age in The Christian Century.pdf

Download PDF • 116KB