Book Club is a place to connect, share, and grow through Christian books and conversation.

About every seven weeks, we select a new book for each of us to read individually. After this period, we come together to discuss and share our thoughts on the book. This practice encourages us to engage in meaningful conversations with people we don’t often have the chance to talk with. It also broadens our understanding by exposing us to a variety of books and authors from different backgrounds and perspectives.

What we’re reading now…

Phoebe: A Story

Paula Gooder

Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in writing to the church that almost surely met in her home, Paul refers to her both as a deacon and as a helper or patron of many. But who was this remarkable woman?

In this, her first novel, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Phoebe's story - who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's theology, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church.