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Book Group

Our book group meets about every eight weeks.  We all bring food and have dinner together, then talk about a book we’ve been reading. It’s not a place where we read Christian books but a chance for us to read a book and bring our Christian mind and worldview to it.  After all, if your Christian mind is active, you should be able to wrap it around any bit of our culture – a book, a film, a TV programme, whatever.
The books we’ve read have taken us from Edinburgh to Afghanistan, the far east and  Africa.  We've roamed far and wide in place and gone back in time to the 19th century.

Jane Cooper is the person to contact for additional information.

Some of the books we have read:
The Lost World by Conan Doyle
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A Fortune Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
The Shack by William P Young
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
The Horizontal Instrument by Christopher Wilkins
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

 

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Our next book will be  The Year Of Living Biblically  by A. J. Jacobs, a New York journalist who decided to spend a year doing everything the Bible instructed him to. The book is funny, but also very thoughtful, and will make us all think about what we mean when we say that we take the Bible seriously.   We next meet on September 6th.
 
(Book Covers vary considerably depending on edition/publication date) 

 

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