Book Club
The Book Club will meet on Monday, January 21 at 7:00 pm to discuss Tell by Frances Itani.
The Southminster Book Club meets several times a year in someone’s home, to discuss a selected, non-scripture work with a spiritual theme or message. All are welcome! If you are new to the group, please contact the church office for the location.
Parenting, Attachment, and the Collaborative Problem Solving Method
A free four-week training series for parents and guardians of children and youth in Old Ottawa South.
February, 2019. Full details here.
Work Party
Every Tuesday from 9:30 am 12 noon a group meets and tackles odd jobs around the building. They do anything from painting, laying tile, refinishing wooden surfaces, repairing concrete, to hanging pictures and running errands. They can always use another helping hand or two. For more information, contact the church office.
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Southminster United Church
Ottawa, Ontario
Since 1932... "a caring community that brings people together to explore faith and express it in action."
BOOK CLUB
The Southminster Book Club welcomes ALL. We read a great variety of books with a focus on those with a spiritual, ethical, theological or social justice theme. We meet at 7:00 PM via Zoom on the fourth Monday of each month (unless otherwise indicated). Following is a list of upcoming dates and books. If you are interested in joining us please contact Jane Brown at jabrown41257@hotmail.com.
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September 30: A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar.
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October 28: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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November 25: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum
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December 16: Green Grass, Running Water, by Thomas King
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January 27: Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
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February 24: Left is Not Woke by Susan Neiman
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March 31: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
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April 28: Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
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May 26: Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
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June 23: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Books discussed earlier:
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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Any Von Bremzen
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The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry
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Children of the Alley by Najib Mahfuz
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Douglas Abrams and Jane Goodall
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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Woman, Watching by Merilyn Simonds
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Under the Bridge by Anne Bishop
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The Methodist Man by Terrence Rundle West
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Flora! A Woman in a Man's World by Flora McDonald and Geoffrey Stevens
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When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight Over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein.
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Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
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The Scattering, by Lauri Kubuitsile
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Read some of our group reviews of books we have read
