New Covenant Community • 210 West Mulberry Street • Normal, IL • 61761 • 309.454.7362
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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 fifteen years:
Þ Why I Am a Christian, Hans Kung
Þ What Can We Learn from Other Religions?
Þ The Nativity Stories of the Gospels
Þ A Study of Communion
Þ Honest to God, by John A.T. Robinson
Þ Faith and Current Ethical Issues
Þ The History of God, by Karen Armstrong
Þ Hymns to an Unknown God, Sam Keen
Þ Who Needs God? by Harold Kushner
Þ When All You Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough by Harold Kushner
Þ The Seven Deadly Sins, Solomon Schimmel
Þ A Parliament of Souls
Þ The Ageless Spirit
Þ Caught in the Crossfire: Helping Christians Debate Homosexuality
Þ The Once and Future Church, Loren Mead
Þ Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Estes
Þ Encountering God, Diana Eck
Þ Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
Þ Mindfulness Meditation, Thich Nhat Hahn
Þ Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, John Shelby Spong
Þ Spirit and Nature
Þ A Sand County Alamanac, Aldo Leopold
Þ Golf and the Spiritual Life, Mike Linder
Þ She Who Is, Elizabeth Johnson
Þ In Search of Christ Sophia, Jann Eldredge-Clanton
Þ Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan
Þ Why Christianity Must Change or Die, John Shelby Spong
Þ Gaia and God, Rosemary Radford Reuther
Þ Confessions, by Matthew Fox
Þ Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
Þ Creation Spirituality, by Matthew Fox
Þ It Takes a Village to Raise a Child, by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Þ The Good Book, by Peter Gomes
Þ Muddling Toward Frugality, by Warren A. Johnson
Þ Finding Your Religion, by Scotty McLennan
Þ The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Þ The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life by Don Miguel Ruiz
Þ Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief by Huston Smith
Þ The Book of Genesis
Þ The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Þ A Study of Paul
Þ A New Christianity for a New World by John Spong
Þ It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein
Þ The Powers that Be by Walter Wink
Þ Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering
Þ Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
Þ When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball
Þ Credo by William Sloan Coffin
Þ God and Politics Jim Wallis
Þ Letter to a Christian Nation Sam Harris
“JESUS SEMINAR” RELATED BOOKS WE’VE STUDIED
Þ Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, John Dominic Crossan
Þ Who Is Jesus? Crossan/Watts
Þ Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg
Þ The God We Never Knew, Marcus Borg
Þ Remedial Christianity, Paul Alan Laughlin
Þ Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg
Þ A Credible Jesus, by Robert Funk
Þ The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
Þ 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:
Þ A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Þ The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
Þ Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds
Þ She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
Þ One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
Þ Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Þ The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Þ The Revision, Dorothy Lee
Þ The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
