{"id":1602,"date":"2011-02-05T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2011-03-07T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T10:03:52","slug":"book-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2011\/book-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High time also that I told you all about the next Dock Book Group, giving you plenty of time to scour the bookshops for your copy!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll remember that Book Group started because a whole sequence of conversations all seemed to be expressing the same frustration, or &#8216;itch&#8217;: that there must be more to life, and church, and faith, than what we know&#8230; \u00a0We&#8217;ve looked at authors who have all struggled with, lived with, and sometimes (even partially) answered that question themselves, from Andy Freeman&#8217;s New Monasticism, to Shane Claiborne&#8217;s radical community, to Don Miller&#8217;s &#8220;church for smug trendies&#8221; (a quote from the last book group &#8211; not mine, honest!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18.39.34.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1603\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2011\/book-group\/screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18-39-34\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18.39.34.png?fit=266%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"266,420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thomas Merton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18.39.34.png?fit=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18.39.34.png?fit=266%2C420&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1603\" title=\"Thomas Merton\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedockchurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Screen-shot-2011-02-05-at-18.39.34-150x150.png?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Next book group we&#8217;ll be looking at someone whose answers come from a completely different tradition: Thomas Merton, after struggling with the emptiness of materialistic American life, found his soul fed by the silence of monastic life. \u00a0His autobiography, <em>The Seven Storey Mountain<\/em>, is the first &#8216;classic&#8217; (ie written ages ago) we&#8217;ve read in Dock Book Group, and promises to give a whole new perspective &#8211; and lots more discussion &#8211; on that lasting question. \u00a0We&#8217;ll gather to share our thoughts at <strong>12:00 on Saturday 12th March<\/strong> at the TQ Premier Inn.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon link is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Harvest-Book\/dp\/0156806797\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1296932003&amp;sr=8-3\">here<\/a> &#8211; and if you poke around a bit, you can get a second-hand copy from America &#8211; I&#8217;ve just ordered mine for \u00a31:45!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High time also that I told you all about the next Dock Book Group, giving you plenty of time to scour the bookshops for your copy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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