Interfaith Book Club

[cbayer]

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.

[kentauros]

1. I support this,

even though I can't really join it. I'm just too slow of a reader. I can't tell you how many physical books I have, and books on my Kindle, that I haven't finished!

So, to alleviate my list of unread books, I'm going to go out and buy macrame supplies to replace a rotting outdoor hanger

[cbayer]

2. You are hilarious! Macrame, now that's something I haven't heard of in years.

I have a long history of not finishing books, even when I really like them. I think sometimes I just don't want it to end, but I never seem to get back to them.

Have fun with your rope.

[kentauros]

3. I found a great site:

Free Macrame Patterns

I was just going to start working as I watched a backlog of shows on my slowly-dying DVR, but I miscalculated the amount needed when I bought some glow-in-the-dark paracord. So now, instead of the whole thing glowing at night, it'll just half-glow as it's mixed with some other dark color to its fluorescent lime-green

I agree with you about some books, or that I feel I've learned enough and don't need to read the rest!

[cbayer]

4. You know, I've been looking for a new hobby that requires close to

zero intellectual effort and this may be exactly what I need! I think I will start with this one!



It's an owl and a purse all in one!

[kentauros]

5. Cool!

Have a Mythos brand Hellenic Lager while you're at it to keep things Interfaith-like:

[cbayer]

6. …..

[kentauros]

7. That looks like a visual representation of the Religion forum!

Now, a book of cartoons on Interfaith would be easier for me to finish

[rug]

8. I'm in.

One book I'd like to discuss is a novella, Bartleby the Scrivener.

Here it is: http://www.bartleby.com/129/

Strictly speaking, it's not a religious book, but it rtaises more questions than it answers. So it's religious.

Unless you prefer not to.

I'd also like to discuss Sartre's version of hell, No Exit. https://archive.org/stream/NoExit/NoExit_djvu.txt

[Htom Sirveaux]

9. I would like to join.

Nomination: The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart.

[okasha]

10. Signing up here.

Nomination: Elizabeth Cunningham's The Passion of Mary Magdalen, a very different take on MM and her relationship to Jesus. It's the second of a four-volume series, but to my mind it's the best and can be read independently.

I think I'd like to start with the Armstrong, though.