Book List - 2018

has been in continuous session since Fr. Marion The Tuesday Morning Class ​ Hammond became rector of St. Thomas in 1963. He began a Bible Study class following the 9:30 mass on Tuesdays. It soon broadened to include contemporary theology and current books. The following is a listing of books studied (lists prior to 1996 are incomplete).

1963- 1988: Up From Eden, ​ I’m​ O. K., You’​re O. K., Thomas Harris ​ ​ ​ Scripts People Live, Clause Steiner ​ Magical Child Knowing Woman: A Feminine Psychology Irene Claremont de Castillejo ​ , ​ Love and Will, Rollo May ​ How to Save the , Andrew Greeley ​ Several by Sam Keen Cloud Hidden, Alan Watts ​ A book on new theory of origins of book of Revelations ​ Letters & Papers from Prison, The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer ​

– ​Leadership by Joyce Parker, Fr. Rick Meyer, The Rev. Sandra Wilson, Deacon 1988 - 1996​ Sally Brown, Fr. Gary Sitton, Fr. George Berlin (in sequence)

Four Quartets, T. S. Elliot ​ The Gnostic , Elaine Pagels ​ Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving ​

1992 The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today’​s Politics, William Safire ​ ​ ------, Pat Conroy ​

1993 A History of , ​ Meeting Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg ​

1994 A Son of the Circus, John Irving ​ The Origin of Satan, Elaine Pagels ​

1995 The Afterlife, John Updike ​

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Topics of Discussion for Tuesday Morning Theology Class since September, 1996. When staff was reduced and the 9:30 mass was cancelled, the class became self-directed and independent. Carol Donahoe became group coordinator and the group agreed to share responsibility of facilitating. During this time the group attracted new members from other churches or no church.

1996 Bill Moyer’s​ Genesis Series (10 PBS videotapes) ​ ​ ​

1997 Quarks, Chaos and , John Polkinghorne ​ Birdsong, God: A Biography, Jack Miles ​ Racing Demon (DCTC play) Corelli’s​ Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres ​ ​ Paul, A. N. Wilson ​ Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells ​

1998 The Divine Comedy, Dante ​ Video series on church history The Birth of Christianity, ​ The History of God & Does God Have a Future, audiotapes by Karen Armstrong ​ Why Christianity Must Change or Die, John Shelby Spong ​ Paul: The Mind of The Apostle, A. N. Wilson ​

1999 A Man in Full, Tom Wolf ​ Revisioning Christianity at the Millennium, Marcus Borg audiotape ​ The Seekers, Daniel J. Boorstein ​ The Cry For Myth, Rollo May ​

- The class was invited to resume meeting at St. Thomas that spring, continuing with Carol 2000​ Donahoe as coordinator and shared group leadership.

Evensong, Gail Godwin ​ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’​s Stone, J.K. Rowling ​ ​ Beloved, Toni Morrison ​ Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver ​

2001 The Last Report on the Miracles at Little Big Horse, Louise Erdrich ​ Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Thomas Cahill ​ The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future, Lloyd Geering ​ The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion, Ken Wilber ​

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2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel ​ The Genesis of Justice, Alan Dershowitz ​ God’​s Funeral, A. N. Wilson ​ ​ Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, Garry Wills ​ Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity, Richard Holloway ​ When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs, Charles Kimball ​

2003 A New Religious America, Diana Eck ​ A Finer End, Deborah Crombie ​ Buddha, Karen Armstrong ​ Audiotape series on by Diana Eck The Master Butchers’ S​ inging Club, Louise Erdrich ​ ​ Abraham, Bruce Feiler ​

2004 Da Vinci Code, Don Brown ​ The of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Disciple, Karen L. King ​ Evil in Modern Thought, Susan Neiman ​ Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels ​ The Spiral Staircase, Karen Armstrong ​ The Science of Good and Evil, Michael Schermer ​

2005 The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, Marcus Borg ​ Re-Imagining Christianity, Alan Jones ​ for the New Millenium, Dalai Lama ​ Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication, Video series by Bart ​ Erhman (& 2006) The new Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten ​

2006 Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, Jack Miles ​ Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Bart Ehrman ​ The Mature Mind: The Power of the Aging Brain, Gene D. Cohen ​ A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright ​ Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter ​ The Revolutionary Jesus: Then and Now, audiotape lectures by John Dominic Crossan ​

2007 Integral , Ken Wilber ​ Tomorrow’​s God: How we create our worlds, Lloyd Geering ​ ​ The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright ​ Catching Up with Jesus: A gospel story for our time, Diarmuid O’​Murchu ​ ​ ​

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2008 Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich ​ How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, James L. Kugel ​ The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho ​ Why We Believe What We Believe, Andrew Newburg & Mark Robert Waldman ​

2009 The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’ ​Birth, Marcus Borg & John ​ ​ Dominic Crossan The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why, Phyllis Tickle ​ A People’s​ History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story. Diana Butler Bass ​ ​ Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and why we don’​t know ​ about them), Bart D. Ehrman ​ The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria ​ The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, Simon Singh ​ The Future of Faith, Harvey Cox ​

2010 Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation, George E. Tinker ​ The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the , Africa, and Asia – a​ nd How It Died, Philip Jenkins ​ ​ Aunt Sofia and the Monastery, (Egyptian author, need to find name) ​ Coming Back To Earth: From to God to Gaia, Lloyd Geering ​ Video series Living the Questions 2.0 ​ The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From The Fault Line Between Christianity and , Eliza ​ Griswold

2011 , Karen Armstrong ​ The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, ​ Hernando De Soto The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’​s Conservative Icon, ​ ​ Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan The , video lecture series by Bart Ehrman ​

2012 Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle, Pam Eisenbaum ​ Revelations — Visions, Prophecy and Politics, Elaine Pagels ​ Christianity After Religion: The End of the Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Beginning, ​ Diana Butler Bass Eternal Life: A New Vision, John Shelby Spong ​

2013 Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road, Brian D. McLaren ​ The Jesus Wars, Philip Jenkins ​ SellingWater by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way, Shane Hips ​ The Power of Parable: How Fiction BY Jesus Became Fiction ABOUT Jesus, John Dominic ​ 4

Crossan Painting the Stars: Science, Religion, and an Evolving Faith, 7 session video presentations from ​ LIVING THE QUESTIONS The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, John Shelby Spong ​

2014 Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality, J Phillip Newell ​ The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future, Lloyd Geering ​ God in the Midst of Change: Wisdom for Confusing Times, Diarmuid O’Murchu ​ From the Big Bang to God: Our Awe-Inspiring Journey of Evolution, Lloyd Geering ​ Jesus and Creativity, Gordon D. Kaufman ​

2015 Christianity: the First 3000 Years. Diarmuid MacCulloch (Read in short bursts as a fill-in book ​ between other books through 2018) A Short History of Myth. Karen Armstrong ​ The Book of Unknown Americans. Christina Henriquez ​ Being Mortal. Atul Gawande ​

2016 Immortal Diamond. The Search for Our True Selves. Richard Rohr ​ Plainsong. Kent Haruf ​ Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian. Paul Knitter ​ Hillbilly Elegy. J.D. Vance ​ Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most. Marcus Borg ​ The Big Picture, On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Sean Carroll ​

2017 The Manticore. Robertson Davies ​ Of Water and the Spirit – Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman. Malidoma Patrice Some Living the Questions 2.0 – An Introduction to Progressive Christianity. Video series from ​ www.livingthequestions.com (Used as a fill-in between books) ​ ​ The First Love Story – Adam, Eve, and Us. Bruce Feiler ​ The Re-enchantment of Everyday Living. Thomas Moore ​

2018 On Tyranny – Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Timothy Snyder ​ Moral Combat – How Sex Divided American Christians & Fractured American Politics. R. Marie ​ ​ ​ Griffith Unbelievable – Why neither ancient creeds nor the Reformation can produce a living faith today. John Shelby Spong

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