[Dialogue] A Book Question

[jlepps at pc.jaring.my]

Priscilla, you really kicked off a firestorm of insights into good 
books for study groups.

I'd like to add an obvious one: Bending History, selected talks of 
JWM. You might want to select among them for those most appropriate 
to the group, but I'd certainly recommend 'The Time My Father Died," 
and "Christ of History." If the group is more interested in effective 
approaches to local community development, then Bending History, Vol 
2 would be helpful.

  Another fine book for group study would be Mature Christianity by 
William A. (Bill) Holmes. He gave the keynote address at the Mathews 
Symposium and is retired from pastoring the national  Methodist 
Church in Washington DC.  He's also written a new one that is being 
published as we speak entitled The God Mask. Both books are quite 
good -- theological and practical.

Good luck

John Epps

At 06:41 AM 2/18/2012, you wrote:
>I belong to a women's book study group at Village Presbyterian 
>Church. We have studied Marcus Borg, Karen Armstrong, Bruce 
>Chilton's Rabbi Jesus, among others. We are just finishing Brian 
>McLaren's A New Kind of Christianity. Brian is coming to our church 
>in April to speak. Borg has been here also.
>I consider our church on the edge re mission, pursuing the question 
>of where the next phase of Christianity needs to take us, etc.
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>I would appreciate any suggestions for books from any of you. We 
>finish McLaren in mid-March and haven't decided what next.
>Priscilla
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>Priscilla H Wilson
>Pris at TeamTechPress.com
>913-432-2107
>www.teamtechpress.com
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