The Holy Heretical Happy Hour Book Group reads and discusses a wide variety of books and essays.
The next book is In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger. We will meet on Zoom to discuss this book in January 2025.
The next book is In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger. We will meet on Zoom to discuss this book in January 2025.
previous books
(Clicking on authors in green will take you to their website)
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Barr (November 2024)
The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah (October 2024)
James: A Novel by Percival Everett (September 2024)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver (July 2024)
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like by Susan E. Hylen (May 2024)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson (April 2024)
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks (March 2024)
Love Without Limits: Jesus' Radical Vision of Love with No Exceptions by Jacqueline Bussie (February 2024
Sivulluq: Ancestor by Lily H. Tuzroyluke (January 2024)
True Biz: A Novel by Sara Novic (October 2023)
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar (September 2023)
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller by Max Wallace (August 2023)
This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger (June 2023)
Search: A Novel by Michelle Hunevan (May 2023)
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 2023)
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes (March 2023)
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher (February 2023)
Church of the Wild by Victoria Loorz (October 2022)
Matrix by Lauren Groff (September 2022)
The Long Walk Home: Confessions on the Camino by Marcia Wakeland (August 2022)
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (July 2022)
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle (May 2022)
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott by Tom Kizzia (April 2022)
A Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans (February 2022)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (January 2022)
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (December 2021)
Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass (October 2021)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (September 2021)
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice (August 2021)
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor (June 2021)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (May 2021)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (March 2021)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (February 2021)
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery (January 2021)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (December 2020)
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (October 2020)
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (September 2020)
Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia Heavener (August 2020)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (July 2020)
One Coin Found by Emmy Kegler (June 2020)
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (May 2020)
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks (March 2020)
Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke (January 2020)
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams (November 2019)
The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong by Karen Gonzalez (October 2019)
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans (August 2019)
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land (July 2019)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (June 2019)
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail (May 2019)
Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox (March 2019)
Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers (February 2019)
Why Religion? A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels (January 2019)
We Have Not Stropped Trembling Yet: Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family by E. J. R. David (December 2018)
Kindly Welcome: A Novel of the Shakers in the Civil War by Linda Stevens
A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace by Brian Zahnd (August 2018)
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (July 2018)
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (June 2018)
Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg (April 2018)
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile. (March 2018)
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of the York Correctional Institute edited by Wally Lamb (January 2018)
A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community by John Pavlovitz (December 2017)
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg (October 2017)
Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel by Mesu Andrews (September 2017)
Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted by Richard Beck (August 2017)
Jesus: Safe, Tender, Extreme by Adrian Plass (June 2017)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (April 2017)
Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim by Sabeeha Rehman (March 2017)
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (January 2017)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (December 2016)
Mary Magdalene: A Novel by Diana Wallis Taylor (October 2016)
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill (September 2016)
However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Helping Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy (July 2016)
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (June 2016)
Christ the Center by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (May 2016)
Anchor & Flares by Kate Braestrup (March 2016)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (February 2016)
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (January 2016)
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber (November 2015)
Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Brueggemann (October 2015)
Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Counterculture Mr. Rogers by Michael Long (September 2015)
There's a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share their Hard Days, Holy Moments, and the Healing Power of Humor edited by Rev. Martha Spong (July 2015)
But I Don't See You As Asian: Curating Conversations About Race by Bruce Reyes-Chow (May 2015)
Michal: A Novel by Jill Eileen Smith (March 2015)
Mission at Nuremberg: An Allied Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim Townsend (January 2015)
Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (November 2014)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (September 2014)
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (August 2014)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (June 2014)
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber (March 2014)
"Sex, Love, and Commerce" by Benjamin J. Dueholm (February 2014)
One Generation After by Elie Wiesel (December 2013)
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland (September 2013)
My Life With the Saints by James Martin (July 2013)
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master' by Rachel Held Evans (May 2013)
Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus by Robin Meyers (April 2013)
The Heretic's Wife: A Novel by Brenda Rickman Vantrease (December 2012)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (October 2012)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (September 2012)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (July 2012)
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles (June 2012)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (April 2012)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (February 2012)
Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel by Roland Merullo (December 2011)
Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (September 2011)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (2011)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (2011)
The Women: A Novel by Kristin Hannah (October 2024)
James: A Novel by Percival Everett (September 2024)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver (July 2024)
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like by Susan E. Hylen (May 2024)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel by Kim Michele Richardson (April 2024)
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks (March 2024)
Love Without Limits: Jesus' Radical Vision of Love with No Exceptions by Jacqueline Bussie (February 2024
Sivulluq: Ancestor by Lily H. Tuzroyluke (January 2024)
True Biz: A Novel by Sara Novic (October 2023)
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar (September 2023)
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller by Max Wallace (August 2023)
This Tender Land: A Novel by William Kent Krueger (June 2023)
Search: A Novel by Michelle Hunevan (May 2023)
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (April 2023)
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes (March 2023)
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher (February 2023)
Church of the Wild by Victoria Loorz (October 2022)
Matrix by Lauren Groff (September 2022)
The Long Walk Home: Confessions on the Camino by Marcia Wakeland (August 2022)
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (July 2022)
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle (May 2022)
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott by Tom Kizzia (April 2022)
A Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans (February 2022)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (January 2022)
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (December 2021)
Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass (October 2021)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (September 2021)
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice (August 2021)
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor (June 2021)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (May 2021)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (March 2021)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (February 2021)
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery (January 2021)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (December 2020)
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (October 2020)
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (September 2020)
Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia Heavener (August 2020)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (July 2020)
One Coin Found by Emmy Kegler (June 2020)
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (May 2020)
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks (March 2020)
Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke (January 2020)
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams (November 2019)
The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong by Karen Gonzalez (October 2019)
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans (August 2019)
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land (July 2019)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (June 2019)
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail (May 2019)
Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox (March 2019)
Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers (February 2019)
Why Religion? A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels (January 2019)
We Have Not Stropped Trembling Yet: Letters to My Filipino-Athabascan Family by E. J. R. David (December 2018)
Kindly Welcome: A Novel of the Shakers in the Civil War by Linda Stevens
A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace by Brian Zahnd (August 2018)
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (July 2018)
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (June 2018)
Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith by Marcus J. Borg (April 2018)
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile. (March 2018)
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of the York Correctional Institute edited by Wally Lamb (January 2018)
A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community by John Pavlovitz (December 2017)
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg (October 2017)
Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel by Mesu Andrews (September 2017)
Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted by Richard Beck (August 2017)
Jesus: Safe, Tender, Extreme by Adrian Plass (June 2017)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (April 2017)
Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim by Sabeeha Rehman (March 2017)
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (January 2017)
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (December 2016)
Mary Magdalene: A Novel by Diana Wallis Taylor (October 2016)
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill (September 2016)
However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Helping Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy (July 2016)
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (June 2016)
Christ the Center by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (May 2016)
Anchor & Flares by Kate Braestrup (March 2016)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (February 2016)
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (January 2016)
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber (November 2015)
Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Brueggemann (October 2015)
Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Counterculture Mr. Rogers by Michael Long (September 2015)
There's a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share their Hard Days, Holy Moments, and the Healing Power of Humor edited by Rev. Martha Spong (July 2015)
But I Don't See You As Asian: Curating Conversations About Race by Bruce Reyes-Chow (May 2015)
Michal: A Novel by Jill Eileen Smith (March 2015)
Mission at Nuremberg: An Allied Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis by Tim Townsend (January 2015)
Lila: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (November 2014)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (September 2014)
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen (August 2014)
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (June 2014)
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber (March 2014)
"Sex, Love, and Commerce" by Benjamin J. Dueholm (February 2014)
One Generation After by Elie Wiesel (December 2013)
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland (September 2013)
My Life With the Saints by James Martin (July 2013)
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master' by Rachel Held Evans (May 2013)
Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus by Robin Meyers (April 2013)
The Heretic's Wife: A Novel by Brenda Rickman Vantrease (December 2012)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (October 2012)
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (September 2012)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (July 2012)
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles (June 2012)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (April 2012)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (February 2012)
Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel by Roland Merullo (December 2011)
Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (September 2011)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (2011)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (2011)