| Would you participate in a book club on MB Forum? |
| Yes! Sounds like a great idea |
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| Depends what the book selections are |
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| Not right now but maybe sometime in the future |
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| No! I can't stand sharing about a book I'm reading |
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| Other (please post your view) |
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
 Anybody up for a book club? |
Posted Jun 1, 2004; 5:28 pm |
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It's a pretty simple idea: a group of people (whoever's interested) decide to all read the same book, and then comment about it during and after reading. Then, another book is chosen and it starts all over again.
If you are at all interested, please post some ideas for what types of books you'd like to read for this (general fiction, spiritual formation, biographies, sci-fi thrillers, etc.) and some specific books that you think would be good choices.
If you have better ideas for how to organize it, please post them too! |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Jun 2, 2004; 8:02 am |
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I voted YES! I'm pretty flexible at what we read. I like all kinds of genre. Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Church or Life would be interesting, as would Bruce Wilkinson's Dream Giver. Henry Blackenby's Experiencing God would be a very indepth one. In the fiction section, I think that maybe some books by Tolkien or CS Lewis would be fun.
I am really flexible. I just love to read and talk about what I've read.  |
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| Ellen3 |
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Posted Jun 2, 2004; 11:12 am |
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Would you be willing to be an ecumenical book club?
I am a United Church person who is very interested in spiritual journalling and growth. |
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| Sudsy Member Joined Sep 23, 2003 2833 posts |
| Ecumenical ? |
Posted Jun 2, 2004; 1:35 pm |
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| Ellen3, I'm not sure what you mean by an 'ecumenical book club'. Does this mean, books that focus mainly on ecumenical goals or are you just saying that the books involved would be from various religious or Christian perspectives ? I have some thoughts and questions about ecumenicity but I think this could be a tread in itself if we want to go there. |
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| Ellen3 |
| Ecumenical Book Club |
Posted Jun 2, 2004; 3:16 pm |
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Sudsy:
My definition of ecumenical was a inter-denominational perspective to the books being discussed rather than goals, etc. I'm not thinking dogmatic/doctrinal approaches but rather actual faith-based or faith-experiences that might be shared to widen each other's appreciation of the way God works in our lives and through our faith communities.
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| Sudsy Member Joined Sep 23, 2003 2833 posts |
| Amen |
Posted Jun 3, 2004; 1:08 pm |
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| Ellen3, that sounds very interesting and I would quite enjoy hearing 'actual faith-based or faith-experiences that might be shared to widen each other's appreciation of the way God works in our lives and through our faith communities'. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Jun 3, 2004; 1:58 pm |
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Is there a specific book you could recommend that is like what you describe (an ecumenical book)? I'm having trouble visualizing.
Thanks 
Last edited by McDLT on Jun 3, 2004; 8:31 pm; edited 1 time in total. |
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| Mennonightmare Member Joined Mar 25, 2003 70 posts Location: St. Catharines, ON |
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Posted Jun 3, 2004; 2:25 pm |
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Hello all,
I think that this could be a rather enjoyable thing to do.
If I were to suggest books, my first pick would be Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauerwas...this book has been revolutionary for me and I would love to discuss it with others.
Another pic would be A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren.
Also, but I have a bias here: Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 by Steve Stockman (I'm a big U2 fan!)
As far as fiction goes...I would be willing to take another run at Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment I know that someone mentioned that in their complaint of Christians not reading fiction.
Also I love To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
and for more current fiction andything by Douglas Coupland would be well worth discussing (perhaps his latest Hey Nostradamous or the classic Life After God or Generation X...plus he's a Canadian...but then us Mennonites are not nationalists :)
well, those are my ideas |
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| vanislandwoman |
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Posted Jun 3, 2004; 5:09 pm |
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I voted yes.
I would like to suggest "Erasmus, the Anabaptists, and the Great Commission." by Abraham Friesen for a serious book.
It would be very interesting to hear the discussions from the point of view of Protestants and Roman Catholic, (or, do we have also any Orthodox participants?) as well as Anabaptists.
The book helped me a lot about the history of the developing ways of being Christian, that I didn't understand before- for example, for a long time I didn't really understand that there was a third strand (Anabaptism) in the Reformation. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Jun 3, 2004; 8:29 pm |
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| I'm not sure if anyone knows this, but the MB Confession of Faith actually has a Study Guide which goes with it. (At the least the light green version did). We used it for our small groups when we were writing a constitution at Komoka Community Church (near London, ON). I was rather new to the church at the time but rather enjoyed learning about what MBs belief. |
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| vanislandwoman |
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Posted Jun 16, 2004; 10:01 am |
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| Marshall, since you started the topic, are you going to move this forward? Could all the titles suggested just go into a hat and have one pulled out? It sounds like everyone here is pretty open to trying something new to them, or discussing an old favourite. |
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| Ben |
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Posted Jun 16, 2004; 10:44 am |
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I have just bought the book A New Kind of Christian. It has been recommended to me from several other people as well. I would love to discuss it here.
Of course I am open to other books as well. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Jun 16, 2004; 4:42 pm |
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I've been given the go ahead to get the Book Club reading. This is great - it looks like we are have enough people interested to have a Book Club.
Next week, I will be put up a poll where we can choose which book we would like to read. So please keep submitting Book Titles & Authors - you have until the end of day Sunday (June 20th) to get them in. Feel free to offer many suggestions. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Jun 22, 2004; 8:15 am |
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Okay - as you probably have noticed, I haven't put up the book poll yet.
I'm still looking into some the books recommended. I want to check on the cost of the book, etc. to make sure they are available and affordable to all.
If you still have some books you would like to add to the list, please feel free. I will put the poll up on this coming weekend (June 26thish).
Thanks for your patience.  |
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| Dora Dueck MB Conference Staff Joined Apr 26, 2004 19 posts |
| Book suggestions |
Posted Jun 22, 2004; 9:32 am |
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| How about fiction? There's two books I'd love to read in a group: Carson McCullers "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" or Miriam Toews' "A Complicated Kindness". Both books are very much "out there" now in our culture (one via Oprah, the other on the Canadian scene) and both touch, I understand (I haven't read them yet) on religious themes. Those are my suggestions. |
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