Napa United Methodist Book Study Group
Previous Book Study titles:
1) January 2002: "The Battle for God" by Karen Armstrong
2) May 2002: "Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus" by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
3) September 2002: "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time" by Marcus Borg
4) January 2003: "The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions" by Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright
5) April 2003: "The Once and Future Faith" by the Jesus Seminar
6) September 2003: "A New Christianity for a New World" by John Shelby Spong
7) January 2004: "Profiles of Jesus" by the Jesus Seminar
8) Lent, 2004: "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" by Marcus Borg Churchwide
9) May, 2004: "Godless Morality Keeping Religion out of Ethics" by Richard Holloway
10) September 2004: "Remedial Christianity" by Dr. Paul Laughlin
11) Lent, 2005: "Open Christianity" by Jim Burklo Churchwide
12) April 2005: "Making God Laugh, Human Arrogance and Ecological Humility" by Anne Primavesi
13) Fall 2005: “Christian Faith at the Crossroads”, “Tomorrow's God”, and “The World to Come” by Lloyd Geering plus the study guide “God, Galileo and Geering” by Robert Jones
14) Winter/Spring 2006: Living the Questions (not exactly a book)
15) Lent, 2006: “The Heart of Christianity” by Marcus Borg Churchwide
16) Summer, 2006: "TCPC Eight Point Study Guide" by Fred Plummer and The Center for Progressive Christianity"
17) Fall, 2006: "The Marriage of Sense and Soul" by Ken Wilber
18) Winter, 2007: "The Great Questions of Life" by Don Cupitt
19) Lent, 2007: "The Last Week" by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan Churchwide
20) Fall, 2007: "God and Emprie" by John Dominic Crossan
21) Lent, 2008: "Re-Imagine the World" by Bernard Brandon Scott Churchwide
22) Fall, 2008: "Beyond Belief" by Elaine Pagels
23) Lent, 2009: "When Faith Meets Reason" edited by Charles Hedrick
24) Fall, 2009: "Saving Jesus from the Church" by Robin Meyers
25) Lent, 2010: "The Powers That Be" by Walter Wink
26) Fall, 2011: "The Greatest Prayer" by John Dominic Crossan
27) Winter, 2012: "Speaking Christian" by Marcus Borg
28) Lent, 2012: "If the Church Were Christian" by Philip Gulley Churchwide
29) Winter, 2013: "Embracing the Human Jesus" by David Galston
30) Spring, 2013: "The Trouble with Resurrection" by Bernard Brandon Scott
31) Fall, 2013: "Zealot" by Resa Aslan
32) Winter, 2014: "The God We Never Knew" by Marcus Borg
33) Spring, 2014: "From the Big Bang to God" by Lloyd Geering
34) Fall, 2014: "How Jesus Became God" by Bart Ehrman
35) Winter, 2015: "The Power of Parable" by John Dominic Crossan
36) Summer, 2015: "The Real Paul" by Bernard Brandon Scott
37) Fall, 2015: "The Gospel of Mary" by Karen King
38) Winter, 2016: "Reimagining God" by Lloyd Geering
39) Spring, 2016: "How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian" by John Dominic Crossan
40) Summer, 2016: "God is Not One" by Stephen Prothero
41) Fall, 2016: "The Lost Way" by Stephen Patterson
42) Winter, 2017: "Short Stories by Jesus" by Amy-Jill Levine
43) Spring, 2017: "Such Is Life" by Lloyd Geering
44) Fall, 2017: "God's Human Future" by David Galston
45) Spring, 2018: "The War on Science" by Shawn Otto
46) Summer, 2018: "Becoming a Thinking Christian" by John Cobb, Jr.
47) Fall, 2018: "Unbelievable" by John Shelby Spong
48) Winter, 2019: "A God That Could Be Real" by Nancy Abrams
49) Summer, 2019: "The Parables of Jesus and the Problems of the World" by Richard Q. Ford
50) Fall, 2019: "The Forgotten Creed" by Stephen Patterson
51) Winter, 2020: "Some Surprises from the Apostle Paul" by William O. Walker
52) Spring, 2020: "Holy Envy" by Barbara Brown Taylor
53) Summer, 2020: "Not In God's Name" by Jonathan Sacks
54) Fall, 2020: "The Righteous Mind", by Jonathan Haidt
55) Winter, 2021: "Excavating Jesus", by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan Reed
56) Spring, 2021: "The Bible With and Without Jesus", by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler
57) Fall, 2021: "Lost Christianities" by Bart Ehrman
58) Winter, 2022: "On the Mystery" by Catherine Keller
59) Spring, 2022: "The Gospel of Judas" by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregor Wurst
60) Summer, 2022: "After Jesus Before Christianity" by Erin Verncombe, Brandon Scott and Hal Taussig
61) Fall, 2022: "Do I Stay Christian?" by Brian McLaren
62) Winter, 2023: "Grounded" by Diana Butler Bass
63) Summer, 2023: "Paul Was Not a Christian" by Pamela Eisenbaum
64) Winter, 2024: "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
65) Spring, 2024: "Promise & Poison" by John Van Hagen
66) Summer, 2024: "What to Believe?" by John D. Caputo