CHRISTIAN CLASSICS BOOK CLUB
Meetings – Monday Evenings, 7:45 pm

Our Christian Classics Book Club is reading Thank God Ahead of Time: The Life and Spirituality of Venerable Solanus Casey, by Fr. Michael Crosby. This approachable book features many stories and pictures from the life of this long-term resident of Detroit. We’ll discuss the book on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM. Yes, we will be meeting—even though it is a holiday! We would love to have you join us!

On 2/18/13 we will discuss: In His Steps, by Charles Monroe Sheldon (240 pages)

On 3/18/13 we will discuss: Silence, by Shusaku Endo (201 pages)

On 4/15/13 we will discuss: Letters and Papers from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (448 pages)

On 5/20/13 we will discuss: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace (336 pages)

On 6/17/13 we will discuss: Mont–Saint–Michael and Chartres, by Henry Adams (170 pages)

Summer break

On 9/16/13 we will discuss: The Silver Chalice, by Thomas Costain (840 pages)

On 10/21/13 we will discuss: The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (528 pages)

On 11/18/13 we will discuss: Morte D’Urban, by J. F. Powers (360 pages)

Christmas break

On 1/20/14 we will discuss: the first half of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West (1,200 pages)

On 2/17/14 we will continue, or conclude our discussion of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

We have already read:

Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader's Journey Through
the Christian Classics, by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
“The Second Inaugural Address,” by Abraham Lincoln
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
The Confessions, by St. Augustine
The Story of a Soul, by St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
The Love of Jesus and the Love of Neighbor, by Karl Rahner, S.J.
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Mr. Blue, by Myles Connolly
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United
States, by Helen Prejean
The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day
The Devil’s Advocate, by Morris West
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson
In Due Season, by Paul Wilkes
Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos
Dubliners, by James Joyce
The Edge of Sadness, byEdwin O’Connor
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
The Four Loves, by C. S. Lewis
Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton
Black Robe, by Brian Moore
Sacred Hearts, by Sarah Dunant