Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.  Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.  God is hard to believe, ask any believer.  What is your problem with hard to believe?

- Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Culture, God, story, science, religion, and what makes for the fullness of human life:  these are our themes.  Ranging over a variety of genres, authorial perspectives, and brews, we’re reading to know and to be challenged.  Intrigued?

Schedule

Every third Sunday of the month, beginning October 17th

7:30 pm, Highlander Pub (115 Rideau)

The Books

Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?  Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church – James K.A. Smith

What’s unearthed when a longstanding religious tradition meets three subversive philosophers?

October – December 2010

In Praise of Doubt – Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld

Two sociologists treat the necessary, unsung space between relativism and fundamentalism.

January – March 2011

Exploring Reality:  The Intertwining of Science and Religion – John Polkinghorne

A quantum physicist attends to our world’s depth and complexity.

April – June 2011

Past Reads

Gilbert Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man

Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson, Is Christianity Good for the World?

Clive Lewis, The Abolition of Man, Till We Have Faces

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories

Phillip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy

Rodney Stark, Discovering God:  The Origin of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief