Next book: Grateful by Diana Butler Bass.
Meets January 11 & 25, 2026
Meets at church: room 6, Warehouse 839 building (enter through church office doors on north side of building).
Join Earlene Sanborn and others for this ongoing book group, choosing and discussing Christian books together. All welcome, join anytime!
January 2026: Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks, by Diana Butler Bass (get your own copy). Meets January 11 to discuss the first half of the book and January 25 for the rest. There’s a link below to buy the book from Bookshop.org [supporting independent bookstores], or check Half Price Books or your local library.
“If gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In Grateful, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed practice of giving thanks…. With honest stories and heartrending examples from history and her own life, Bass reclaims gratitude as a path to greater connection with god, with others, with the world, and even with our own souls. It’s time to embrace a more radical practice of gratitude—the virtue that heals us and helps us thrive.” (From the description at Bookshop.org.)
February book choice
In February, we will be reading Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor.
Other possible authors to explore together: Cynthia Bourgeault, Tara Brach, Anthony de Mello, James Finley, Thich Nhat Hanh, Barbara Holmes, Beverly Lanzetta, John O’Donohue, Christine Valters Painter, Parker Palmer, Richard Rohr, Joyce Rupp, & Howard Thurman.
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