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.

• Maximum Canada: Doug Saunders
  Discussion: Sept. 26, 2024
  Guest: Cameron Fraser
  
  
• Washington Black: Esi Edugyan
  Discussion: October 17, 2024
  Guest: Franklin James
  
  
• Faith as Protest: Karen Hamilton
  Discussion: Nov. 28, 2024
  Guest: Karen Hamilton
  
  
• Bootstraps Need Boots: Hugh Segal
  Discussion: Jan. 23, 2025
  Guests: Marion Pardy/Hal Llewellyn
  
  
• The Undertaking of Billy Buffone: David Giuliano
  Discussion: Feb. 20, 2025
  Guest: David Giuliano
  
  
• The Perfection of the Morning: Sharon Butala
  Discussion: Mar. 20, 2025
  Guest: Wayne Kelly
  
  
• True Reconciliation: Jody Wilson Raybould
  Discussion: Apr. 25, 2025
  Guest: Lori Ransom
  
  
• Undivided Love: Janet Gear
  Discussion: May 29, 2025
  Guest: Janet Gear

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.