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August - Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public ManSeptember - Why Work? by Dorothy SayersOctober - How Much Land Does a Man Need? By Leo TolstoyNovember - The Long Loneliness by Dorothy DayDecember - Christmas Party!January - Bulletins from Immortality: Poems by Emily DickinsonFebruary - The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor DostoyevskyMarch - Handel's … Continue reading 2020-2021 Women’s Reading List →

January: Charles R Kesler's America's Cold Civil War & Thomas L Friedman's The American Civil War, Part II. February: William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times March: Culture –TBD April 30: Brave New World - Huxley   July 30 Summer Read: TBD   August 27:  Economics - TBD September 24: This Child Will Be Great - Ellen Johnson … Continue reading 2019 Reading List →

2018 January: Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela February: Politics and the English Language - George Orwell March: Letters From Vincent van Gogh April: Wrestling With God - Simone Weil    August: "Lessons From History" by Will and Ariel Durant (reread with different discussion) September: "Shantung Compound" by Langdon Gilke  October: God's Grandeur: The Poems … Continue reading 2018 Reading List →

January – To Bigotry No Sanction - George Washington February – Sacred & Profane Love - John Donne March – The Loss of the University - Wendell Berry April – The Lottery - Shirley Jackson May – Break June – Break July – Break August – TBA September – The Birthmark - Nathaniel Hawthorne October – Oracle of … Continue reading 2017 Reading List →

January - On The Reading Of Old Books - C.S. Lewis "Reading and the Growth of the Mind" from How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler February - The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri March - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan April - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain May - Break June … Continue reading 2016 Reading List →

For meeting times and location details select your closest city: Dallas or Fort Worth. January - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens February - The Wager - Blaise Paschal March - Revelation - Flannery O'Connor April - The Purchase of a Soul - Victor Hugo May - Break June - Break July - Break August - … Continue reading 2015 Reading List →

For meeting times and location details select your closest city: Dallas or Fort Worth. January - On Friendship - Cicero February - Two Old Men - Leo Tolstoy March - Ex Tenebris - Russell Kirk April - On Being Human - Woodrow Wilson May - Break June - Break July - Break August - City of God - Augustine … Continue reading 2014 Reading List →

The 2013 readings are taken from What So Proudly We Hail. January - National Identity:  Why Should It Matter? Edward Everett Hale, “The Man without a Country” Mary Antin, from The Promised Land Ralph Ellison, “In a Strange Country” February - Selections from The American Creed & The American Character Declaration of Independence Abraham Lincoln, … Continue reading 2013 Reading List →

March - The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith April - The Grand Inquisitor - Fyodor Dostoyevsky May - The Strangest Story in the World - G.K. Chesterton June - A Spiritual Pilgrimage - Malcolm Muggeridge July - Break August - Politics, Morality, and Civility - Vaclav Havel September - The Oak and the … Continue reading 2012 Reading List →