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A night for soup and reading

All St. Paul Reads

All St. Paul Reads

All St. Paul Reads is encouragement for all to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. The 2008 selection is The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Holocaust-survivor Simon Wiesenthal.

Our Book Corner sponsors this movement in reading, community, and faith each year. A heart community of 65 readers braved a winter snowstorm last month for a cozy evening (above).

If you have been one of the many readers of The Sunflower, you might bide your time until the Spring thaw with some related books:

  • Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy explores the many questions raised by the shooting in an Amish school, and how religious beliefs and habits led the Amish to forgive so quickly.
  • Good Poems for Hard Times is Garrison Keillor’s collection, finding hope and resilience in the language of ordinary things.
  • Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s Night on a pious teenager’s anguish at having survived the horror of the Holocaust.
  • Lewis Smedes’ The Art of Forgiving, one of the finest books written on the meaning and value of forgiveness for healing.

And if those selections don’t stir your interest, there are 700 more titles on the shelves for adult readers (and another 374 for children). All in the Book Corner, waiting for you.

Contact Jan Aplin, Book Corner manager,

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