Practicing Presence
Practicing Presence
Practicing Presence is a weekly book discussion that opens with twenty-five minutes of meditation or silent prayer. Practicing Presence meets Sunday mornings during the Formation Hour. Newcomers are always welcome.
Titles are selected by group members. Books are usually available for purchase through St. Paul’s bookstore, or you may obtain them on your own.
When & Where
Sundays at 10:00 am in the Library
Leaders
Rebecca Atwood, Grimsley Graham
Current Book Selection
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels offers a provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, including Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Professor Pagels lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
— Penguin Random House
