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Reading with Joy — Chapter Eleven

“...it is so difficult to explain things to you, small one. And I know now that it is not just because you are a child. The other two are as hard to reach into as you are. What can I tell you that will mean anything to you? Good helps us, the stars help us, perhaps what you would call light helps us, love helps us. Oh, my child, I cannot explain! This is something you just have to know or not know.”

— A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Welcome back to my summer book club! (Can you believe we only have two chapters left?) In chapter 11, the lovely Aunt Beast has taken charge of caring for Meg’s frightened heart and tired body—finding a name that is personal and loving (“aunt”), filling her with good food, and reminding her that her father and Calvin really do care for her, despite her fears.

This week I am joined by the best of friends and fancy candle purveyors, the one and only Elena Trueba. We talked about the strange contrast between losing control for conformity and giving it in trusting love, the journey from blindness to loving understanding (which may be so bright that it looks like darkness to those outside it), and the wonderful Christian mystics who reflect these ideas in their writing.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle



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Today’s Guest: Elena Trueba

Elena Trueba is a writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. She has a Master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where she studied religious fundamentalism, and is currently at work on a book about the women of the Stay-At-Home-Daughter movement. You can follow Elena on Twitter, where she mostly tweets pictures of small and delightful animals, @elena_trueba .

DISCUSSION QUESTION: Aunt Beast’s steady care washes away layers of coldness, anger, and fear from Meg with love and gentleness. How does treating Meg as an individual help her to recover her ability to perceive? What are some ways that you have felt similarly cared for?

Reading with Joy — Chapter Ten

“...a reassuring sense of safety flowed through her with the warmth which continued to seep deep into her as the beast touched her. Then it picked her up, cradling her in two of its four arms.”

— A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Welcome back to my summer book club! In this chapter, Meg awakes fearful, paralyzed, and angry at her father for failing to be the perfect rescuer she had dreamed of finding. Although her father assures her that he is doing everything he can to keep the children safe, her frustration at losing Charles Wallace boils over into despair that refuses to forgive or hope the best of her father’s actions.

It reminds me a little of the fear we are prone to when we find ourselves in a dark and broken world, full of injustice and illness and strife, with “only” true beauty and goodness to help us stand against it. In this episode (where we cover everything from the delightful motherliness of Madeleine L’Engle to Doctor Who), my dear friend Boze Herrington and I talked about the almost sacramental nature of art which points us towards God’s goodness in a broken and beautiful world and the way that children’s literature reminds us that the universe is a good place to feel at home.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle



Buy on Amazon









Today’s Guest: Boze Herrington

Boze and I with the local stoic bovine

Boze Herrington, who has ghostwritten 20+ mystery novels, is the brilliant, humorous, and hopeful mind behind the Twitter account the Library Owl (@SketchesbyBoze), which is a place of appreciation for beauty and some of the best literary jokes on the internet. You can also keep up with his musings on everything from how Harry Potter is really structured like a series of mystery novels to the deep importance of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 on his Patreon.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:This planet is strange, grey, and so alien that the creatures we encounter help us to grapple with our own strangeness and the truth that we are not alone in the universe. What do you make of this new planet? Meg’s anger has been a consistent help to her, but here it almost seems to blind her to her father’s love… something we are prone to ourselves. Has art helped you to grapple with the goodness of life and love despite chaos?

Reading with Joy — Chapter Nine

“If anybody invited you to go to a newly discovered galaxy, would you go? I would. It’s a wonderful way to meet new and exciting people.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Friends, welcome to chapter nine of my Wrinkle in Time book club! Searching through the sinister halls of Central Central Intelligence, our heroes have finally encountered Mr. Murry—and found that, trapped in a glass prison, he is as blind to their presence as the possessed Charles Wallace is blind to love.

I was delighted to have lifelong Wrinkle enthusiast Dr. Matthew Rothaus Moser join me this week, reminding us of the difference between a fully realized human existence where the mind, heart, and imagination work together and a disembodied, purely rationalistic way of living. The deepest, truest things we can know are discovered with our loves, not with our minds.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle



Buy on Amazon









Today’s Guest: Dr. Matthew Rothaus Moser

Matthew Rothaus Moser received a PhD in theology from Baylor University. After teaching at Loyola University Maryland as lecturer in Theology since 2013, he is excited to begin as Assistant Professor of Theology in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University in Fall of 2020. He is the author of Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of the Saints and of the forthcoming Dante and the Poetic Practice of Theology. He tweets at @M_Rothaus_Moser.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:What is the significance of Mrs. Who’s glasses? What do you think they symbolize?How has seeing the world through eyes of love helped you be a truer friend? What books or other works of art have challenged you to listen to the conclusions of love alongside those of the mind?
















A Severe Mercy

By Vanauken, Sheldon
























Love Itself Is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints

By Matthew A. Rothaus Moser

Reading with Joy — Chapter Eight

“Love is not power. To love is to be vulnerable, and it is only in vulnerability and risk, not safety and security, that we overcome darkness.”

— A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Welcome back to my summer book club! Today we discuss chapter eight of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Meg and Calvin face a Charles Wallace possessed by IT and finally (!) catch a glimpse of Mr. Murry. Join me and my dear friend Brandee Knowles as we dig into the necessity of pain, the beauty of human connection, and what it means to live into our bravery.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle



Buy on Amazon









Today’s Guest: Brandee Knowles

Brandee Knowles is a mom and legendary cook who we have had the privilege to call a dear family friend for the last fourteen years. You can both enjoy her cooking tutorials on Life With Sally and follow her mouthwatering culinary exploits on Instagram @zestandpeel.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Meg says that sometimes we have to be unhappy to know how to be happy. How is pain necessary to help us grow?How do our differences help us to connect with one another and pull each other into our humanity? How can we help each other be okay with uncertainty?

Reading with Joy — Chapter Seven

“Why should you wish to fight someone who is here only to save you pain and trouble? For you, as well as for the rest of all the happy, useful people on this planet, I, in my own strength, am willing to assume all the pain, all the responsibility, all the burdens of thought and decision.”

— The Man with the Red Eyes (A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle)

Friends, welcome to Chapter Seven of a Wrinkle in Time! I’m delighted to share my conversation with L’Engle biographer and kindred spirit Sarah Arthur, where we wondered at the legacy Madeleine left for everyone longing to seek after truth and beauty with an open heart, and the way our individuality echoes down from nuclear physics all the way to the theology of the Incarnation.

Truth and beauty might seem insignificant next to the monstrous conformity of CENTRAL (and the long days of our present Ordeal). But perhaps, where Charles Wallace’s vigilante cleverness falls short, loving each other as individuals will lend us great strength in our fight against the dark.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle



Buy on Amazon









Today’s Guest: Sarah Arthur

Sarah Arthur is a fun-loving speaker & author of a dozen books ranging from popular devotionals (Walking With Frodo, The One Year Coffee With God, Mommy Time) to serious engagement with literature--including the literary guides to prayer with Paraclete Press and "A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time.”

A graduate of Wheaton College & Duke University Divinity School, Sarah serves as preliminary fiction judge for the Christianity Today Book Awards & teaches about the writing life at conferences around the country. She's also deeply invested in conversations around social justice and New Monasticism through her book "The Year of Small Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us" (Brazos Press, coauthored with Erin Wasinger). Sarah lives in Lansing, Michigan, with her two little boys and her husband, Tom, pastor of Sycamore Creek Church. You can keep up with her on Facebook, on Twitter @HolyDreaming, or at www.saraharthur.com

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Why does Charles Wallace give into the man with the red eyes? Where does he go wrong? Nobody on Camazotz seems to have a name. How does this relate to the overall creepiness of CENTRAL? What might this reveal to us about the Camazotz way of life?
















A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L'Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time

By Arthur, Sarah



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Walking With Frodo: A Devotional Journey Through the Lord of the Rings

By Sarah Arthur



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P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here. 

Reading with Joy — Chapter Six

““Meg, I give you your faults... I think you’ll find they come in very handy on Camazotz.””

— Mrs. Whatsit (A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle)

Welcome back to my summer book club! This week I am joined by the one and only Sally Mama to discuss chapter six of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin begin to find just how deep their struggle for light will be in this chapter, as they encounter the terribly conformist world of Camazotz armed only with their gifts from the Mrs. W’s— Calvin’s gift for communication, Charles Wallace’s resilient childhood, and Meg’s… faults?

This book was a reminder for both of us, from childhood on, that we can choose to be champions of goodness even in our weakness: a reminder that life is good, that we have the capacity to bring light into the world, and that God never leaves or forsakes us. Join us as we ponder the ways that awakening wonder and bravery in children help them walk through hard times with resilience.

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle







Today’s Guest: Sally Clarkson

Sally Clarkson is a best-selling author, world renowned speaker, and beloved figure who has dedicated her life to supporting and inspiring countless women to live into the story God has for them to tell.

Sally hosts a weekly podcast "At Home With Sally" where she invites you into her home, thoughts, and life to share her candid wisdom and winsome discipleship. The podcast reaches women around the world and now has millions of downloads. She has been married to her husband Clay for almost forty years and together they founded and run Whole Heart Ministries— an international ministry seeking to support families in raising faithful, healthy, and loving children, in an increasingly difficult culture.

Sally has four children, Sarah, Joel, Nathan, and Joy, each exceeding in their own fields as academics, authors, actors, musicians, filmmakers, and speakers. She lives between the Mountains of Colorado and the rolling fields of England and can usually be found with a cup of tea in her hands.

You can follow Sally’s life-giving ponderings at sallyclarkson.com, follow her on Instagram @sally.clarkson, or find her on Twitter @Sally_Clarkson.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Why do the Mrs. W’s give Meg her faults as a gift that will protect her on Camazotz? How do The Mrs. W’s narrate to Calvin, Meg, and Charles Wallace the battle to come? How does the story we tell ourselves and others about challenges in the world shape the way we face them? Both Meg and Charles Wallace react very emotionally to the Black Thing, but this is seen as appropriate and right. Might emotions, even negative ones, be holy or helpful?
















Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

By Clarkson, Sally
























Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

By Clarkson, Sally, Clarkson, Joy, Clarkson, Sarah







P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here. 

Reading with Joy — Chapter Five

“All through the universe it’s being fought, all through the cosmos, and my but it’s a grand and exciting battle.”

— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Welcome back to my summer book club! Today we discuss chapter five of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. This week, the Murry children encounter the Happy Medium and wrestle with how to be stewards of the light in the face of the great darkness which surrounds our world and traps their father. Joining me is my incomparable sister, Sarah Clarkson, who reminds us that God reaches us in even a fallen and broken world by sending us beauty in the things we often dismiss as peripheral to our lives. In nature, literature, and art, we encounter reminders that God can take broken things and make them beautiful—maybe even us. Our conversation traversed dimensions, time, the Trinity, the nature of evil, and the myriad agents of light God has used in the great battle against the darkness. Jump in to this week’s discussion!

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle







Today’s Guest: Sarah Clarkson

Sarah Clarkson is a writer, sometimes theologian, wife of a marvelous Dutchman named Thomas, mother of the elfin children Lilian and Samuel, and a newly-arrived resident of West Sussex in England (where her husband is a curate) She graduated from Wycliffe Hall in Oxford with a MSt in theology, where she also spent a proud year as president of the Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society. Through blogs, books, and her current research, she explores the theological significance of story, the intersection of theology and imagination, and the formative power of beauty. She has just begun work on a book called Beauty Never Lies, the story of her own wrestle with mental illness and the beauty that pervaded and transformed her darkness and taught her to hunger after hope.

You can follow Sarah's literary adventures at sarahclarkson.com, follow her on Instagram @sarahwanders, or check out her Twitter @thoroughlyalive

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Both Meg and Charles Wallace react very emotionally to the Black Thing, but this is seen as appropriate and right. Might emotions, even negative ones, be holy or helpful?What do the historic resisters of the Black Thing have in common? What point do you think L’Engle is trying to make?
















Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

By Clarkson, Sarah
























Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

By Clarkson, Sally, Clarkson, Joy, Clarkson, Sarah







P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here. 

Reading with Joy — Chapter Four

“The first is that God made it; the second is that God loves it; the third is that God cares for it.⁣”

— Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

Welcome back to my summer book club! Today we discuss chapter three of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. In chapter four we are swept up into a world entirely other from our own— we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto! On this episode, my friend Sarah Cozart and I discuss white flowers, The Dark Thing, and the strength of beauty. Listen in and join in on the discussion!

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle







Today’s Guest: Sarah Cozart

Sarah Cozart writes to invite her readers to worship and wonder and to lift their eyes to the Creator of all beauty and joy. You can find her words at Fathom Mag, Morning By Morning, The Mudroom, and Servants of Grace, as well as in my newsletter and on my blog. Her most recent project is a book proposal on animal theology, in which I argue that God created animals to communicate his attributes, to provide companionship, joy, and wonder, and to awaken our longing for the coming New Earth. Her passion for words extends to leading worship at Mercy Hill Church and tutoring students in reading and grammar.  Due to chronic pain, she spends most of my time at home, corralling our son and our Australian Shepherd and tending my garden. You can find out more about her at her website.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Why do the Mrs. W’s take the children to Uriel to reveal the Dark Thing to them? Why does beauty have the capacity to strengthen us in the face of darkness?P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here.

Reading with Joy — Chapter Three

“Mrs Murray laughed. ‘I don’t want to make anything of Calvin. I like him very much and I’m delighted he’s found his way here.’”

— Madeline L'Engle, Wrinkle in Time

Making Strange…

Welcome back to my summer book club! Today we discuss chapter three of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Chapter three is as comfortable and ordinary as a family living room filled the chatter of familiar voices and the wafting scent of dinner on the stove, until suddenly… it’s not! Finally, we are off to the races, searching for Meg’s father, the mysterious echoing of Mrs. Who’s arrival announcing that adventure is afoot! This week, Kaitlin Schiess joined me to discuss belonging, homeiness, and the wonderful way that literature and “make strange” the world around us, so that our vision and sense of wonder is renewed. Tune in and then chime in to this week’s discussion!

It’s not too late to join in!

This is how the book club works: I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

By Madeleine L'Engle




















































Today’s Guest: Kaitlyn Schiess

Kaitlyn Schiess is a writer and seminary student living in Dallas, TX. Her first book, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, will be published with InterVarsity Press in Sept 2020. You can follow her @kaitlynschiess on Twitter and Instagram and at kaitlynschiess.com. 

The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

By Schiess, Kaitlyn







P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here.

Reading with Joy — Chapter Two

how I imagine Mrs. Whatit’s house (though it would have to be bigger)

“Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point.

// The heart has its reasons of which reason knows not.”

— Blaise Pascal, Pensées

The worst principal, mind reading, and a haunted house in the woods…

Welcome back to my summer book club! Today we discuss chapter two. Joining me for today’s episode, Haley Stewart and I discussed the way someone we hardly know can fee like home, quantum entanglement, the spiritual discernment of pets, and, as ever, the excellencies of Mrs. Murray. Listen in at the link above, and then join in the discussion on Instagram or Facebook.

Today’s Guest: Haley Stewart Haley is a beekeeper’s wife, mother of four, speaker and author of The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture. She blogs at Carrots for Michaelmas and co-hosts the Fountains of Carrots Podcast. 
















The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture

By Stewart, Haley







This is how the book club works:

I’ll post an episode per chapter each week on Monday, which you can listen to in preparation for discussion. Then, I’ll post discussion questions on this website, my instagram, my twitter, and my Facebook. (full disclosure: I think discussion tends to go best on Instagram and Facebook). Post your thoughts, comments, questions on these threads as a way to engage the text. I also encourage you to discuss the book in real life (or over Facetime, given our weird times!) with a real friend… it’s so much more fun! In that spirit, each week I’ll have a different guest discussing each chapter with me.

P.S. Patreon book club…

We’ll be reading and discussion Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love on my Patreon. It is the first book written in english by a woman, and describes her visions of Christ after a near death experience. It is a classic in the Christian mystical tradition, and has encouraged me very much. I'll do the podcast book club for the $10 tier (podcasts belonging in that tier originally). So if you want to join the book club, make sure you're in that tier by June 15th (but wait till after June 1st, if you want to avoid getting charged for May). 

Find out more here.