New Covenant Community • 210 West Mulberry Street • Normal, IL • 61761 • 309.454.7362

Info for the 2010-2011 Academic Year:

Click HERE for information about our

Adult Education Academy

New Covenant Community members and friends engage in a variety of book study groups throughout the year.  Below you will find some of the books we have studied together in book groups over the past sixteen years: 

• Why I Am a Christian, Hans Kung

• What Can We Learn from Other Religions?

• The Nativity Stories of the Gospels

• A Study of Communion

• Honest to God, by John A.T. Robinson

• Faith and Current Ethical Issues

• The History of God, by Karen Armstrong

• Hymns to an Unknown God, Sam Keen

• Who Needs God? by Harold Kushner

• When All You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough by Harold Kushner

• The Seven Deadly Sins, Solomon Schimmel

• A Parliament of Souls

• The Ageless Spirit

• Caught in the Crossfire: Helping Christians Debate Homosexuality

• The Once and Future Church, Loren Mead

• Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Estes

• Encountering God, Diana Eck

• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Mindfulness Meditation, Thich Nhat Hahn

• Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, John Shelby Spong

• Spirit and Nature

• A Sand County Alamanac, Aldo Leopold

• Golf and the Spiritual Life, Mike Linder

• She Who Is, Elizabeth Johnson

• In Search of Christ Sophia, Jann Eldredge-Clanton

• Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan

• Why Christianity Must Change or Die, John Shelby Spong

• Gaia and God,  Rosemary Radford Reuther

• Confessions, by Matthew Fox

• Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

• Creation Spirituality, by Matthew Fox

• It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, by Hillary Rodham Clinton

• The Good Book, by Peter Gomes

• Muddling Toward Frugality, by Warren A. Johnson

• Finding Your Religion, by Scotty McLennan

• The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

• The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Why Religion Matters:  The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief by Huston Smith

• The Book of Genesis

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

• A Study of Paul

• A New Christianity for a New World by John Spong

• It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein

• The Powers that Be by Walter Wink

• Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering

• Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels

• When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball

• Credo by William Sloan Coffin

• God and Politics Jim Wallis

• Letter to a Christian Nation Sam Harris

• Liberation Theology:  An Introductory Guide Robert McAfee Brown

• Everything Must Change, Brian McLaren

 “JESUS SEMINAR” RELATED BOOKS WE’VE STUDIED

•  Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, John Dominic Crossan

•  Who Is Jesus? Crossan/Watts

• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg

• The God We Never Knew, Marcus Borg

• Remedial Christianity, Paul Alan Laughlin

• Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg

• A Credible Jesus, by Robert Funk

• The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg

• The First Christmas by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan

• The Last Week by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan

For more information about the Westar Institute and the Jesus Seminar visit their website by clicking HERE

NOVELS:

• A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

• The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis

•  Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds

•  She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb

• One True Thing, Anna Quindlen

•  Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

• The Revision, Dorothy Lee

• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd