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Reading Group

Two Reading Groups will be offered during Spring 2010. See the links below for more information.

Every semester the Study Center offers a reading group that explores either important works of historic and contemporary Christian thought or works of scholarship that explore contemporary social change. The group typically meets monthly over lunch at the Study Center.

Recent authors and books that this group has read include:

  • Classics of Christian Thought
  • G. K. Chesterton
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Flannery O’Connor
  • Walker Percy
  • Dorothy Sayers
  • Studies and reflections on contemporary culture
  • David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise (Simon and Schuster, 2001)
  • Stephen Prothero, American Jesus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
  • Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle (Counterpoint Press, 2001)

“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts.... Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

Blaise Pascal

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