As we conclude discussing our book selection for Holy Week/Easter, we invite you to join us Tuesday, June 11, at 10am in the South Room as we present the movie based on Gerrard Conley’s memoir Boy Erased.
Jared Eamons (based on Conley), the son of a small-town Baptist pastor, must overcome the fallout after being outed as gay to his parents. His father and mother struggle to reconcile their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding his own voice and accepting his true self.
Next book study for the St. Thomas Book Club:
During the Season of Pentecost, we will begin discussing Barbara Brown Taylor’s newest book Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, starting June 18.
Taylor weaves together stories from the classroom with reflections on how her own spiritual journey has been complicated and renewed by connecting with people of other traditions—even those whose truths are quite different from hers. The one constant in her odyssey is the sense that God is the one calling her to disown her version of God—a change that ultimately enriches her faith in other human beings and in God.
