Summer Reads Series 2024 — Book 1 — Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
What is compassion? How do we live compassionately at a time when other values and priorities press in upon us? One of the foremost thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, author Karen Armstrong explores these questions through the wisdom of different faith traditions. Join us as we engage this scholarly and practical guide to the process of deepening our own capacity for compassion.
The book may be purchased at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Steps-Compassionate-Borzoi-Books/dp/0307595595/
or at Good Reads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8867135
Mother Anna will lead a discussion on Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life after the 11 am service on Sunday, July 21.
Book #2 — Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman — August 18
Book #3 — Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond — September 15