Church members, friends & our pastor suggest topics for our book studies.  This spring of 2010 we'll be reading Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg beginning in January, The Last Week by Marcus Borg & J. D. Crossan during Lent, followed by Borg's The Heart of Christianity.

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg.

We invite you to join us for a study of Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time.  On Tues., Feb. 2 at 6 pm, we'll be discussing Chapters 1 & 2.

In this book, Borg addresses the yearnings of those who seek a contemporary faith that welcomes critical intelligence and openness to the best of historical scholarship. Using Biblical and historical study, Borg develops an alternative image of Jesus which can lead to a new and sustaining faith in Christ. 

He asserts that the Christian life is not about believing or about being good, but rather that the Christian life is life grounded in search for relationship with God which invites us into a journey of personal transformation.

If you plan to join us, please sign up in the church office.

Recent Books Include:

 A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian McLaren

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor.

A Generous Orthodoxy (Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian) by Brian McLaren.

Presbyterian Questions, Presbyterian Answers: Exploring Christian Faith by Donald K. McKim

The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Birth by Marcus Borg & John Dominic Crossan.

Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by John Shelby Spong.

Revelation: Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching by Eugene M. Boring

Understanding Difficult Scriptures in a Healing Way by Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn, & Dennis Linn

Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People edited by Dorothy C. Bass

Who Wrote the Bible by Richard E. Friedman

Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking about Human Interactions by Roberta Gilbert