Connecting with Our Vision to Let Hope Abound Through Great Books & Conversation
The Belmont Book Club will serve as an intentional step to strengthen the Belmont community’s connections to our new President and First Lady, deepen key stakeholders’ understanding of where Belmont is headed as an institution and further embed the University’s new mission, vision and ways of being into the campus culture.
The Preacher King by Richard Lischer
(Book Club Selection Title)
This is a remarkable book, written by a friend and former colleague of Susan’s and Greg’s, that explores how King’s identity and gifts as a preacher also translated into effective political rhetoric in the broader American context. King’s rhetoric offers powerful insights for our “bridge-building” task today, helping us imagine how to help re-weave the social fabric.
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley (Supplemental Read)
An insightful discussion of key themes in Scripture, read from the perspective of an African-American Christian scholar who will visit Belmont in January.
Apeirogon: A Novel (Supplemental Read)
A powerful novel that describes the bridge-building friendship between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim. Based on a true story, the title comes from a geometric shape that has a “countably infinite number of sides.” The image suggests the complexities of understanding larger social dynamics and histories and the significance of “unlikely friendships” in dealing with those complexities.