Happy Hour Books
An opportunity to discuss faith, life and theology while enjoying a beverage and some comradery.
The Happy Hour Book Group usually meets at 5pm once a month midweek at a time convenient to participants.
Our meeting place has been the Rose & Crown pub in Palo Alto or on the front patio at church (where it’s bring your own beverage to share). Contact Pastor Bernt for details.
Readings tend to be short and in-depth books or essays. Sometimes we don’t get a chance to finish the reading, but we come anyway to enjoy a meaningful conversation while sipping a favorite beverage.
Current reading, November 2025: “Nine Billion Turing Tests” which is available free online, here. “In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfort when he is forced to communicate with his neighbors’ AI devices, rather than the people themselves.” AND it happens to be authored by FLC member (and writer) Chris Willrich!
Some of the authors and books we’ve read in the past:
- Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, by Elizabeth Oldfield.
- Attention economy with Burkemann, Odell, Newport.
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Low Anthropology by David Zahl.
- When in Romans by Beverly Gaventa.
- On Christian Freedom and Commentary on the Magnificat by Martin Luther
- Who is God? and Jesus: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Bauckham
