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,...

February 2025 First Monday Book Club pick 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:...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

We can't always control what happens to us. But we can discover how to heal the hidden hurt it leaves behind.If you're like many of us, you carry a weight...

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...

"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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise, revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary, that helps provide clarity to the timeless question "what is art?""A revised and expanded 25th-anniversary edition...

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....

Outreach Resource of the Year Why Does Narcissism Seem to Thrive in Our Churches? We've seen the news stories. Maybe we ourselves have been hurt by a narcissistic church leader....

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...

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...

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...

MARCH 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION "The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery."-Alfred Kazin When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he...

  "A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner." --The New York TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman...

RECOMMENDED BY THE REV. DR. LINDA PRIVITERA, ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL Small enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this primer is a must-have for...

2024/2025 Bishop's Institute Licensed Lay Preacher Course, Diocese of Florida, textbook (one of two) In her bestselling preaching autobiography, Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a...

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...

'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...

BISHOP INSTITUE RECOMMENDED BOOK FOR ADVENT 2024 -Join Jane Williams on a reflective journey from Advent to Epiphany, and discover the timeless wisdom to be found in some of the...

I'm being pulled in a thousand different directions. As a therapist, Chuck DeGroat hears that line all the time. "I hear it from students and software developers," he says. "I...

Become a more effective preacher by understanding the multiple intelligences and learning styles present in your congregation. Most preachers experience the conundrum of reaching some people in the congregation, and not...

ONE OF THE ASSIGNED TEXTBOOKS FOR THE 2024/25 LAY PREACHERS CLASS (SERIES 5), BISHOP'S INSTITUTE, DIOCESE OF FLORIDA Insights from one of the most distinctive and eloquent scholar-preachers of our time...

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...