Saturday, March 20th Book Club @ 1:00pm in the GCC Library. Bring something to share.
For March: We're making this an Irish Book Club for March 20, and there are lots of choices for what you can read/look up, etc.
1) If you so choose, you could read one or more chapters of HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION by Thomas Cahill. The chapters on (St.) Patrick and on the scribes in the monasteries who preserved so much of the written Word of God are part of our American heritage and well worth reading. This book is readily available at any public library. (Thomas Cahill will be speaking Mon., March 15, at the lst Bapt. Church of Decatur if anyone is interested. Call Bev S.) (If you read from this book, be sure to read the Introduction.)
For March: We're making this an Irish Book Club for March 20, and there are lots of choices for what you can read/look up, etc.
1) If you so choose, you could read one or more chapters of HOW THE IRISH SAVED CIVILIZATION by Thomas Cahill. The chapters on (St.) Patrick and on the scribes in the monasteries who preserved so much of the written Word of God are part of our American heritage and well worth reading. This book is readily available at any public library. (Thomas Cahill will be speaking Mon., March 15, at the lst Bapt. Church of Decatur if anyone is interested. Call Bev S.) (If you read from this book, be sure to read the Introduction.)
2) You could read all or part of a biography of Patrick. Bev S. has one available. (And Carla Estelle has done a lot of research on him and I'm sure would be happy to share it.) Or - you might want to research one of the following: The Book of Kells, the Celtic teaching crosses, the hymn, "Be Thou My Vision", Brendan the Navigator who took the Gospel north....or anything else of your choosing. We're just looking at our Christian heritage as it came from Ireland. So have fun.......Erin go bragh.....and Cead mille failte.
For April: A WINDOW OVER THE SINK by Peg Bracken...........This is an easy read but fun; several people have copies, so I think it can be passed around to most everyone.
For May: NESTS ABOVE THE ABYSS by Isobel Kuhn..........We read GREEN LEAF IN DROUGHT by her several years ago - the story of a young couple in China. NESTS is the story of Isobel and her husband as they worked with the Lisu people in China........a remarkable story by an excellent writer. Copies are being ordered soon if you would like one. ****And we have asked Dorothy Baumann's mother Ruth to come and share with us stories of her life in China. You don't want to miss this one.
Also, this message from Bev S: For those of you who read a translation of ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN D. other than the Everyman's Library translation, I do apologize. I had no idea that other translations were full of language that we would prefer not to put in our minds..........so I am sorry. The Everyman's Library edition has very little language and is available at any library. If you were not able to come, you might want to check out the Great Souls video on Solzhenitsyn which is in our church library. All of us who watched it were fascinated with this man's story and how his writing helped to bring down the Soviet Union.
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