PICNIC AND BOOK DISCUSSION
School has started, but summer isn’t quite over yet. Join us for a picnic lunch after church on Aug. 29. Hamburgers and hotdogs will be provided. Please bring your favorite summer salad or dish to share. After lunch, we’ll have time for informal chatting about the book Forgiving Ararat by Gita Nazareth, but all are welcome even if they did not read it. Forgiving Ararat was chosen as this year’s book for the National One Book+One Parish+One Summer program. Ten denominations are participating. LBC was the 179th congregation to join the program, which eventually involved 304 churches. Imagine 304 conversations about the same book!
Here is Barbara Egbert’s review:
Brek Abigail Cutler has the perfect job, the perfect husband, the perfect home and the perfect child. And then she dies. She leaves it all behind … except for her job as an attorney. She discovers that she has been chosen to join the elite team of lawyers whose job it is to defend souls at the Final Judgment. Like Jonah, Brek tries to run away from what appears to her be the worst excuse for a career from here to eternity. Eventually, fate catches up with her. In the process she discovers just how imperfect life is – her own and others’ - and just how far her idea of justice is from the truth of people’s lives.
Forgiving Ararat isn’t a perfect book. The prose and dialogue are stiff and a few sections run on a bit too long. On the other hand, it’s a fairly quick read and the author raises issues of life and death, forgiveness and justice in new and creative ways.
I’m very much looking forward to discussing the book after church at our picnic on Sunday. Aug. 29
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SUMMER READING
Some LBC members have already begun reading Forgiving Ararat by Gita Nazareth (Bette Press, 2009). If you haven’t – hey, we forgive you! Seriously, whether you’ve read the book or not, come to the summer picnic after church on Sunday, Aug. 29, where we can offer up our thoughts, opinions and reviews.
***********This summer we are going to be a part of the National One Book+One Parish+One Summer program. (See announcement at the end of this newsletter.) It is a way to experience a spiritually deeper summer and stay connected during vacation. The book is Forgiving Ararat by Gita Nazareth (Bette Press, 2009). So whether you were going to find time to read something this summer at the beach, on the airplane or relaxing in your back yard, make this novel one of your selections.
We wil have a summer picnic after church on Sunday, Aug. 29, where we can offer up our thoughts, opinions and reviews. Happy reading!
