Pearl Church Community

Shusaku Endo’s, “Silence”

2008-08-16T14:54:04Z

For our September meeting we will be reading Shusaku Endo’s “Silence,” our first novel since starting the small group. (There are several more planned for this year!). Endo’s book explores what it means to be Faithful, and how we respond in the face of God’s apparent silence. As we read this month, feel free to post your thoughts in this thread.

Cavanaugh’s “Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire”

2008-07-10T16:23:22Z

This is the book we are reading for August:

http://www.amazon.com/Being-Consumed-Economics-Christian-Desire/dp/0802845614/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215735715&sr=8-1

Anybody start reading it yet?

Reading Group List of Books

2008-07-16T21:30:49Z

Here is the list of books we will be reading for the coming year. We meet after the second service on the second Sunday of the month to discuss that month’s book. Everyone is welcome, even if you didn’t quite finish the book for the month.

August: William T. Cavanaugh, “Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire”
September: Shusaku Endo, “The Silence”
October: Athanasius, “On the Incarnation”
November: Lesslie Newbigin, “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society.”
December: Salman Rushdie, “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”
January: St. Augustine, “Confessions” (Trans. Henry Chadwick; bks. 1-9)
February: St. Augustine, “Confessions” (Trans. Henry Chadwick; bks. 1-9)
March: N.T. Wirght, “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church”
April: St. Benedict, “Rule”
May: Marilynne Robinson, “Gilead”
June: Kalistos Ware, “The Orthodox Way”