Recommended Books

MAY 2024 SELECTION On a sweltering day in August 1960, in the segregated Deep South city of Jacksonville, Florida, a seventeen-year-old Black boy finished his dishwashing job at Morrison's Cafeteria,...

2024 Cathedral Lenten book study selection for Reading Between the Lines lectionary class and Sunday morning Digital Disciples class The national bestseller From one of our country's most prominent rabbis,...

First Monday Book Club February 2024 Selection NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB MARCH 2024 SELECTION   AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME...

You will go from laughter to tears in this very intimate story written by a Hospice nurse about her experiences. Written from the heart, this book captures the spirits of...

Recommended in November 2023 by Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves at Diocesan Convention for the Diocese of Florida. Created by Pádraig Ó Tuama five years ago, the Spirituality of Conflict website is...

Sunday morning St. John's Cathedral formation study for inquirers or new Episcopalians or February 2024   Part of the well-established Welcome to... series from Morehouse Publishing, this book addresses church history from...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB 2023 SELECTION Not only accepting but also celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating book looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes...

2024 St. John's Cathedral summer book read and Zoom class on Sunday afternoons from 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. on the following dates: 6/30, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28, 8/4.   INSTANT NEW...

"What is prayer? It's not a passport to heaven. If anything, it's a way of seeing here, a way of being here." In Being Here, acclaimed poet and theologian Pádraig Ó...

Spring Book Study 2024, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, FL and Cerveny Speaker, St. John's Cathedral, May 2024 Although Easter is the most significant event in the Christian...

August 2024 First Monday Book Club selection   AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by:...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB JULY 2024 SELECTION "Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times "A wry,...

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the "monumental and eye-opening" story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB APRIL 2024 SELECTION From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten...

Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What has the resurrection to do with our idea of salvation? This book sets out to show how the...

2023 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling...

2023 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in...

SEPTEMBER 2024 BOOK CLUB SELECTION One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in...

FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB JUNE 2024 SELECTION A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick   "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human...

OCTOBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it....

Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community draws on the spiritual practices of Northern Ireland's longest established peace and reconciliation organisation. For over fifty years, it has been bringing fractured communities...

'So I will write in English, pressing new words from this beautiful plain language spoken by all. Not courtly French to introduce God politely. Not church Latin to construct arguments. English...

2024 CONFIRMAND BOOK STUDY, ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, JACKSONVILLE, FL Winner of a 2019 Illumination Book Award for Theology Take a journey through The Book of Common Prayer, the Christian life, and...

As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES - READER'S DIGEST - SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH - HUFFPOST Featured on NPR's RADIO TIMES and WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your world, here...

How can we love and serve God with gladness and singleness of heart?For more than a decade, Episcopal priest Christopher H. Martin has studied and explored this question. Building upon...

2023 Sunday afternoon Zoom class at St. John's Cathedral  Christian Book Award(R) programForeword INDIES Book of the Year FinalistOutreach Resources of the YearChristianity Today Book AwardThe Gospel Coalition Book AwardEmerging Public Intellectual Award Growing...

Recommended reading for Monday morning 2023 Centering Prayer Zoom meeting at St. John's Cathedral Every commentary on the Book of Psalms has had to face the issue that many of...

Most Christians are familiar with the story told in Mark's gospel, from the fishermen leaving their nets, to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, to the political rumblings and...

Women of the Bible have been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets for centuries--but no more. In a groundbreaking book, author Lindsay Hardin Freeman identifies every woman who speaks...

Winter Book Study, 2024, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, FL Explore the miracles of Jesus in Signs and Wonders with Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament studies and Bible study...

WINNER--2020 Best Indie Book Awards, Non-Fiction: Caregiving Caring for a parent, spouse, or relative who cannot care for themselves due to age, infirmity, or illness is one of the noblest...

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything. Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult...

DECEMBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION   "C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds...

One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable...

January 2023 Book Study, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Jacksonville, FL Examine the most difficult teachings of Jesus with Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to...

NOVEMBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION   GMA BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes...

RECOMMENDED BY FELICIA BULLOCK, DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN'S FORMATION AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL A child plants a mustard seed in an empty garden. It is an itty-bitty seed. It isn’t anything...

Reviewed by Dean Kate Moorehead Carroll in August 2024 Bookstore Newsletter "As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer, we find ourselves sometimes hungry for new...

Bishop's Institute Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich...