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Book & Media Group

Our book group provides an opportunity to learn together and grow in our understanding of the many faiths which deepen our understanding of the world we share. If you are interested in joining or would like to suggest a book for us to read and discuss, please contact John Poole at jhpoole5@gmail.com.

November 19, 2024The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Sharon Brous
September and October, 2024Essential Sufism, edited by James Fadiman and Robert Frager 
June 11 & July 9, 2024Siddharta by Herman Hesse
May 14, 2024Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together by Dalai Lama
February 13, 2024Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World’s Religions Can Come Together by Dalai Lama
August 8, 2023Essential Sufism by Robert Frager 
July 11, 2023Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
June 13, 2023The Power of Unity: Overcoming Racial Divisions, Rebuilding America by Bonnie J Taylor
May 9, 2023Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
March 14, 2023Welcome to the Wisdom of the World And Its Meaning for You: Universal Spiritual Insights Distilled from Five Religious Traditions by Joan Chittister.
February 14, 2023Holy Rascals: Advice for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Rami Shapiro
December 13, 2022Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America by Gustav Niebuhr (Part 2)
November 8, 2022Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America by Gustav Niebuhr (Part 1)
October 11, 2022High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley (Part 2)
September 13, 2022High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley (Part 1)
August 9, 2022Love God, Heal Earth: 21 Leading Religious Voices Speak Out on Our Sacred Duty to Protect the Environment
by Sally G. Bingham
June 14, 2022When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People by  Duane R. Bidwell
May 10, 2022My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
April 12, 2022The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr (Part 2)
March 8, 2022The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr (Part 1)
February 8, 2022Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Part 2)
January 11, 2022Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Part 1)
December 14, 2021Dawn of the Light Film Discussion
November 9, 2021The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
October 12, 2021The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (Part 2)
September 14, 2021The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (Part 1)
August 10, 2021The Upanishads introduced and translated by Eknath Easwaran
July 13, 2021Fethullah Gullen: Why a Muslim Scholar in Pennsylvania Matters to the World by Jon Pahl
June 8, 2021But I Don’t See You as Asian: Curating Conversations About Race by Bruce Reyes-Chow
May 11, 2021White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
April 13, 2021American Sutra by Duncan Ryūken Williams
March 9, 2021The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
February 16, 2021How Do You Pray? edited by Celeste Yacoboni
January 12, 2021The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
December 8, 2020Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
November 10, 2020See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur