Miriam Circle (Women's Group)
1st Tuesday of the Month, 1:30pm in the Kugler Room
Bible study and devotions, book discussions, exploration
of significant topics from current religious journals and lectures.
Wednesday Evening Study
7:00 in the Kugler Room
Save the date for the next Saint Paul’s
Book Club meeting: Wednesday, July 9
7:00 pm in the Kugler Room
Book: “Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse
This book chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at
the time of the Buddha. Siddhartha, a privileged Brahmin’s son, grows
increasingly dissatisfied with the expectations his family has for him
and decides to leave home in order to live a more contemplative life. In
time he becomes restless with the path he has chosen and discards it for
a life of the flesh. He conceives a son, but eventually becomes bored,
and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha
undergoes an experience that signals the beginning of a new phase in his
life: a phase marked by suffering, rejection, peace, and finally,
wisdom.
The author of Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, was born in Germany in 1877,
the son and grandson of Protestant missionaries. During WWI Hesse worked
to supply German prisoners of war with reading materials and expressed
his pacifist leanings in antiwar tracts and novels. Hesse won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1946.
Thursday Morning Women's Bible Study
10:00 – 11:15 am in
the
Kugler Room
LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION IN
THE FALL
Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study
8:30 –
9:30 am in the
Kugler Room
Topic: The Book of Acts.
Bring
your curiosity & a Bible. No previous experience with Bible study
required.
Library/Media Center
(2nd floor, Parish Building)
The library can supplement class or discussion group subjects:
biographies, devotional guides and fiction are some of the materials available.
The reference collection will answer many questions, but it
does not circulate outside the library. For more extensive reading use the adult
circulating collection.
The key to the collection is the card catalog. Use it to look
for an author or a particular title; a subject card will give you a call number
where you will find similar books together on the shelf. Audiovisual materials
appear in the card catalog but are housed in the 3rd floor annex. They
must be requested from the librarian or a Christian Education staff member.
The library operates on the honor system: please use the
charge card in the back of every circulating item and please:
