Welcome to the SCS Book Club Hub!
Grab a book, gather a friend (or two), and dive into a Book Study designed to spark insight, connection, meaningful conversation, and ultimately reveal YOU to yourself. Together, we’ll dive into books that stir the soul, spark meaningful conversations, and expand our awareness—one inspired page at a time. Whether you're just beginning your journey or walking a well-worn path, this is your sacred space to reflect, connect, and rise. Come read with us—your next breakthrough might be between the lines.
How this works:
Choose a book below and click on the icon. You will be directed a page with chapter-by-chapter handouts designed by Reverend Bonnie. Each book below comes with a downloadable guide to help you navigate key themes, reflections, and discussions.
Choose to read the book by yourself, host a small group in your community or on Zoom, contact other community members on Facebook: www.facebook.com/spiritualcenterspokane to join you.
Read through the materials and decide if you want to go at the pace chosen or if you want to meet more leisurely.
Invite others to participate. Post your insights on our Facebook page to encourage others to read the chosen books
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan
What We’re Reading
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Book One
How to Know A Person by David Brooks
This book was chosen because our country has an epidemic of loneliness. What a great way to brush up on our skills of connection or learn them for the first time. This book could be called “How to Be A Social Human” and Reverend Bonnie adds into the handouts spiritual living as the undergirding of connection. Topics include: how to be a friend, how to listen, how to show up for someone who is going through a rough time, how to have conversations, and much much more. written by David Brooks
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Book Two
Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
I (Reverend Bonnie) have read every one of Martha Beck’s books and love them. I chose this book as the majority of Americans experience anxiety. Beck’s solution is the God Quality Creativity and the God Gift of Curiosity. The book is loaded with awareness exercises to shift an individual out of their anxious state. Beck leads with the premise that as a left-brain society we have cut off our right brain that provides us with peace, comfort, and support. Loaded with the latest research, studies, and her examples of Living Creatives, Beck can walk us into a Holistic and Spiritual way of living and perceiving, if we choose to go with her. -
Book Three
Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World
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