Interfaith Book Club [View all]

We have tossed this around before and I am willing to try and coordinate it.

First, please sign up here if you would be interested in participating.

I would suggest that we nominate books and then we have a poll to choose which book to read and discuss.

We can then break it down to digestible parts and discuss one each week.

The discussion could be organized by each member formulating a question and choosing a passage for discussion. These could be posted a few days beforehand.

Passages could be recorded so that each member has the opportunity to read theirs out loud.

So let's start with a sign up and see if we have enough interest. When you sign up, please suggest a few books for consideration. I know Okasha had previously suggested Adrian House's Francis of Assisi. The problem with this is that I could not download it and have no way to get it otherwise, unless someone wants to bring it down here for me!

I would like to nominate "The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence" by Karen Armstrong, "Misquoting Muhammad" by Jonathan Brown, "Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms" by Gerard Russell, "Living with a Wild God" by Barbara Ehrenreich and "The Devil, a new biography" by Phillip Almond. All of these are available as Kindle downloads. I haven't read any of them, but they all interest me.