Summer Book Clubs
Summer Book Clubs are a fun way to build connections and community and create space for discussion around diverse topics that impact our everyday lives.
Pick a book and join a club!
You can form your own group, and we’ll provide a structure and discussion guide for each book, or you can attend discussions hosted at the church. So, brainstorm who you may want to gather—whether it be people of your same age and stage, people who live in your neighborhood, or perhaps friends from a Connecting Group!
Browse this year’s books below and register today!
2025 Books
There are multiple books to choose from: Practicing Hospitality by Annie McCune, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson, Healing What's Within by Chuck Degroat, Brown Faces, White Spaces by Latasha Morrison, and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
Practicing Hospitality
by Annie McCune
At Trinity, we seek to invite people into friendship with Jesus, and we believe that one of the best ways to help people experience Jesus is through hospitality. Practicing Hospitality: The Joy and Grace of Loving Strangers is written by one of Trinity’s own, Annie McCune. In the pages of this very practical book, McCune recounts ways in her own life when she both gave and received kingdom hospitality. If you desire space to imagine what loving strangers like family might look like, this book is a great choice!
Get the book: Amazon | Thrift Books
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
by Eugene Peterson
A timeless classic, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, encourages modern-day Christians to join the many faithful believers who have come before us. While instant gratification and quick fixes are marks of our culture today, Peterson guides us toward a slower and more deliberate spiritual growth. By focusing on the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134), Peterson invites us to experience the love of God and life in the Spirit along the way. This book is great for anyone who would like to spend time meditating on the Psalms or who has a desire for a deeper understanding of what discipleship looks like for Christians today.
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Healing What's Within
by Chuck Degroat
If you’re like many of us, you carry a weight of buried pain. Despite looking put together on the outside, inside a storm brews. There’s a churn of unprocessed feelings of shame, anger, grief, or loneliness and your body tells the story of its struggles. Little by little, you find yourself becoming disconnected from yourself and the safety of God’s kingdom. Not knowing what to do with your suffering and fearing you'll be hurt again, you’ve learned to turn your attention away from your whole person. In Healing What’s Within, therapist and professor Chuck DeGroat invites you on a compassionate journey inward to experience the love of God and life in the Holy Spirit and to see what it might look like to really attend to your whole person. Join us as we begin to ask the questions “Where are you?”, “Who told you?”, and “Have you eaten from the tree?”
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Brown Faces, White Spaces
by Latasha Morrison
At Trinity our fourth Core Commitment is to make space for meaningful and reconciled relationships, knowing that reconciliation is at the heart of God. In Brown Faces, White Spaces, Latasha Morrison explores what racial reconciliation could look like in America. To do so, she looks at nine aspects of American life where systemic racism exists and where liberation is needed. Morrison shares stories, historical context, and present realities to examine these areas. This book is honest, challenging, and yet incredibly hopeful. Morrison writes, “Remember that if you are breathing, you have the agency to bring about change….” Morrison discusses reconciliation and liberation from a biblical foundation while emphasizing that the image of God is present in every human being.
Get the book: Amazon | Thrift Books
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction is often the best teacher and can serve as either a mirror to see our own lives or a window through which to view others. Our focus of reading and discussion of this year’s fiction book will be through the lens of Trinity’s Core Commitments.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a fictional work of a missionary family from Bethlehem, GA moving to the Congo in 1959 during the Congo’s fight for independence from Belgium. Believing they have everything they need to evangelize the Congolese and live in Africa, the Price family quickly learns they are not prepared. Told through the perspectives of the five Price women, we piece together a story of physical, emotional, cultural, and spiritual survival.
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Previous Books
Interested in seeing what the discussions are like or want to dig into a book from a previous year? You can access previous Book Club discussion guides by simply clicking on the cover art below.