Participants meet on Sunday mornings to discuss books and seasonal devotionals that the group reads together.  We meet in person and on Zoom at 9:00am on Sundays and 7:00pm (Zoom only) on Monday evenings. The weeks we are meeting will be communicated in advance, along with a reading schedule.  Anyone is welcome to join us for lively discussion of the various book topics.

Here’s what we’ve been reading:

Winter 2024

Vivek H. Murthy, MD, Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Harper Collins, 2020  (Two opportunities to discuss the book: Mondays at 7:00 pm via Zoom or Sunday mornings at 9:00 am in person or on Zoom.)

Advent 2023

Walter Brueggemann, Names for the Messiah: An Advent Study, Westminster John Knox Press, 2016

Late Summer/Early Fall 2023

Sarah Augustine, The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, APG Sales and Distribution, 2021

Summer 2023

TED Talk series on a variety of topics

Spring 2023

Chris Murphy, The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy, Random House, 2020

Winter 2023

Wilderness (Year A Lent Devotional),  sanctifiedart.org

Amanda Ripley, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, Simon & Schuster, 2021

Advent 2022

Cynthia M. Campbell, Christmas in the Four Gospel Homes, Westminster John Knox Press, 2019

Fall 2022

Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred, Broadleaf Books, 2021

Late Summer 2022

TED Talk series on a variety of topics

Summer 2022

Pope Francis,  Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship  

Spring 2022

Malala Yousafzai, We Are Displaced, Little Brown and Company, 2019.

Winter 2022 

Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, HarperCollins, 2020.

Advent 2021

Amy-Jill Levine,  Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, Abingdon Press, 2019.

Fall 2021

Martha C. Nussbaum,  The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Summer 2021

Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Spring 2021

Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence. HarperCollins, 2021.

Lent 2021

Again & Again: A Lenten Refrain. A Sanctified Art LLC

Join us Sunday at 10:30am and see what we are about!

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church
19200 Willamette Drive
West Linn, Oregon 97068
(503) 636-7000
office@epcwl.org