Books Completed by the SJE Thursday Reading Group - as well as suggested titles
Quote from Guest on March 3, 2026, 12:55 pmMay 2018 Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll
Sep 2018 A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota edited by Sun Yung Shin
Dec 2018 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Jan 2019 Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. JohnsonApril 2019 Why Religion? By Elaine Pagels
Jun 2019 The Meaning of Mary Magdalene by Cynthia Bourgeault
Jul 2019 The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
Sep 2019 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Dec 2019 The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Mar 2020 Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor
Apr 2020 Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Jun 2020 White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Jul 2020 How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Sept 2020 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Nov 2020 God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus by N.T. Wright
Nov 2020 Virus as a Summons to Faith by Walter Brueggeman
Feb 2021 A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman
Mar 2021 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Jun 2021 Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Sep 2021 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Feb 2022 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Apr 2022 My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Oct 2022 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Feb 2023 The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
Apr 2023 The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller, PhD
Sept 2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Jan 2024 The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski
Mar 2024 How We Learn to Be Brave by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Sept 2024 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
January 2025 Where Do We Go From Here; Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 2025 The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas AbramsSeptember 2025 James by Percival Everett
November 2025 False White Gospel by Jim Wallis
January 2026 Blue Earth River by William Loving
March 2026 Calling In by Loretta J. RossRecommended at one time or another:
Cost of Discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Long Walk to Freedom. Autobiography of Nelson MandelaThe Plague by Albert Camus
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Finding God in the Faith of Others by By Barbara Brown Taylor
The Source by James A. Michener
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Greg Boyle
Dear America: Notes of An Undocumented Citizen by José Antonio Vargas
Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
Just Mercy, a Story if Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
I am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Enfleshing Freedom: body, race and being by M. Shawn Copeland
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Barbara A. Holmes
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Greg BoyleFevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
Prairie Fires: the story of Laura Ingalls
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Sister Joan Chititser
Love Is The Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
May 2018 Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll
Sep 2018 A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota edited by Sun Yung Shin
Dec 2018 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Jan 2019 Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson
April 2019 Why Religion? By Elaine Pagels
Jun 2019 The Meaning of Mary Magdalene by Cynthia Bourgeault
Jul 2019 The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
Sep 2019 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Dec 2019 The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Mar 2020 Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor
Apr 2020 Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Jun 2020 White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Jul 2020 How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Sept 2020 The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Nov 2020 God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus by N.T. Wright
Nov 2020 Virus as a Summons to Faith by Walter Brueggeman
Feb 2021 A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman
Mar 2021 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Jun 2021 Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Sep 2021 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Feb 2022 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Apr 2022 My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Oct 2022 The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Feb 2023 The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
Apr 2023 The Awakened Brain by Lisa Miller, PhD
Sept 2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Jan 2024 The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski
Mar 2024 How We Learn to Be Brave by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Sept 2024 This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
January 2025 Where Do We Go From Here; Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 2025 The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams
September 2025 James by Percival Everett
November 2025 False White Gospel by Jim Wallis
January 2026 Blue Earth River by William Loving
March 2026 Calling In by Loretta J. Ross
Recommended at one time or another:
Cost of Discipleship. Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
I am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Long Walk to Freedom. Autobiography of Nelson MandelaThe Plague by Albert Camus
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Finding God in the Faith of Others by By Barbara Brown Taylor
The Source by James A. Michener
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship by Greg Boyle
Dear America: Notes of An Undocumented Citizen by José Antonio Vargas
Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
Just Mercy, a Story if Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
I am Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Enfleshing Freedom: body, race and being by M. Shawn Copeland
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Barbara A. Holmes
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Greg BoyleFevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
Prairie Fires: the story of Laura Ingalls
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Sister Joan Chititser
Love Is The Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
