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 book, March 2025: For the season of Lent we’re reading Elizabeth Oldfield’s new book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. More details here. “In a world experiencing turbulent change, we need people who are resilient, kind, open, generous, and brave. How do we become those people?” Topics include attention and distraction, being depolarizing, discovering transcendence, finding intimacy and community.
Some of the authors and books we’ve read in the past:
- 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
