Book Study
The Monday Night book club will be discussing the book “Finding Your Religion” by Scotty McLennen beginning on March 14 and continuing for about 4 weeks. If you would like to join this discussion group, please contact Rev Doreen Oughton (see contact information on this web site).
Amazon.com Review
Finding Your Religion is a guidebook for the perplexed–those who have lost faith in the religion of their youth and are not sure how to continue their spiritual lives. The book’s author, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, has plenty of experience with the perplexed; he is a Unitarian minister and the chaplain at Tufts University. (He has also inspired and entertained millions of people indirectly, as the model for the freewheeling character Reverend Scott Sloan in Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury.) McLennan has structured Finding Your Religion on a model of six stages of faith–Magic, Reality, Dependence, Interdependence, and Unity. The book describes each of these stages in detail, drawing on McLennan’s experience with students’ spiritual searches and on his own search (which led him, among other places, to Harvard Law School and to ashrams in the Far East). McLennan’s prose is clear and direct; he is very open to exploration, and very tough on laziness. “Pick a religious path and start walking,” he writes. “Even if it turns out not to be the right way later on, you won’t get anywhere spiritually without starting.” –Michael Joseph Gross –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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