Monthly: September 2023 – June 2025
Brew a cup of tea or pour a glass of your favourite drink, and snuggle in with a good book. Oh, and you can discuss the book with at least two friends -- The Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Moderator of The United Church of Canada, and her guest – in one of Canada’s biggest book clubs.
Starting Sept. 21, 2023, and ending in June 2025, these (mostly) monthly book club sessions will feature fiction, non-fiction and poetry written by (mostly) Canadian authors. Through a lens of flourishing, the books explore:
- Dreaming, utopias and dystopias
- The environment and resource extraction
- Urban/rural difference of experience
- Reconciliation
- Poverty
- The theology of The United Church of Canada
There will be bold ideas. There will be daring connections. There will be content you can dig your teeth into. And guaranteed, there will be laughter. Because the Mod is like that.
Dates and Books
The book club will meet by Zoom, almost every month from Sept. 21, 2023 - June 2025, always from 6:30 - 8 p.m. ET.
Each month we'll email a notice with the exact time/date of the next meeting. You'll also receive a "reminder" a few days before each meeting.
The programs will be recorded, and the recordings will be linked back to this course page, but we encourage you to attend "live" so that you can participate in the conversation.
Spring 2024 Schedule
- Act/Fast: Spiritual Practices for a Climate in Crisis: editor Alydia Smith
- Discussion March 5, 2023 3:30 pm ET
- Guest: Rev. Christine Boyle
- A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
- Bramah and the Beggar Boy by Renée Saklikar
- Discussion: May 23, 2024
- Guest: Renée Saklikar
- The Other Side of the River by Rev. Alf Dumont - CENTENNIAL EDITION (first of 4 highlighted UCC authors to mark our centennial year)
- Discussion: June 27, 2024
- Guest: Rev. Alf Dumont
Discount from the United Church Bookstore
Registrants will receive a promo code for 15% off your purchase of two or more books featured in The Mod’s Book Squad at the United Church Bookstore. Visit the collection to see all available featured books.
