So you’ve finished a few of your summer reads – a good mystery, a fine novel or two or an autobiography, perhaps – and now are looking for something else? The Book of Joy might be what you’re looking for.
From the inside cover:
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama’s home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness’s eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?
This book of serious joy is not only a great read, it could be the first step on a new, life-giving path.
In September The Book of Joy will be our selection for “St. Andrew’s Wesley reads”, and will serve as the spring board for Sunday worship, sermon series and 3-week adult education series.
Sep 14, 21 & 28
7pm via Zoom
