The Spiritual Book Club
This message was sent to presbymergent from PCUSA minister Susan Baller-Shepard:
I am a Presbyterian minister, social worker, and writer, and I’ve facilitated www.spiritualbookclub.com for nearly ten years now. I am a parish associate pastor at First Pres-Normal, IL. We also have a local spirituality book club group that meets in Barnes & Noble once a month, makes meals for the homeless, collects items for women in prison, etc. We now have a new blog www.spiritualbookclubblog.blogspot.com which I think would be of interest to the Presbymergent crowd.
We’re collecting interviews to highlight the spiritual lives of real people on this blog. If you’d like to be highlighted, please email me your responses to the below questions and a photo, and we’ll post them. Enjoy reading what’s already posted. We hope to get diversity both of opinion and geography, and so far we have responses from friends in India, England, Australia, etc.
Peace,
Susan Baller-Shepard
Real People, Real Lives, Real Spirituality…
Your Name (you can choose, you can put your full name or just first name):
Where you live (vague as you wanna be):
What you do as a vocation or avocation?
Your two favorite books:
Your two favorite CDs:
Why you are interested in spirituality?
Your favorite quote:
Your favorite web sites:
Your hero?
A spiritual lesson you hope to learn?
A place in the world where you feel spiritually “connected?”
Please include a photo of yourself, or something that represents you, so we can upload it to the blog.
Comment by Mary on 25 March 2008:
Hello Susan,
I just found your site and thought I would stop for a minute and share. I’ve been researching books for my spiritual book club. In finding about yours I see that we have some work to do. You are doing amazing work. At this point (early in the game) we are just reading books. I think having other projects to help our communities is a wonderful thing.
I would love to share with you the latest book of our club. It’s called “A Place To Belong”, by Paul Miller. It’s a wonderful, thought provoking, healing type book. The book is a Fiction based on Fact. A little boy lives a horrendous life and learns hatred and anger. As he grows he meets good and wonderful people. He tells of his experiences through his journey and how after 50 years he learned the lessons of forgiveness and understanding. I see it as being a classic. I hope you will have a chance to pick it up and then share it with others. Don’t forget to have at least one box of tissues close by.
Take Care and Keep up the great work!
Mary :>)
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