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About Book Club
The InspireSeattle book club is always seeking new members interested in reading and
discussing books regarding key political issues of these times. We meet every 4 to 6 weeks
on a weekday evening for
2 hours to discuss our latest book. The meeting place rotates among the homes of our membership,
located from West Seattle to the Greenlake neighborhood. Carpooling is encouraged and is generally available.
Each book club concludes with a discussion of which book the majority of attendees would prefer to
read next. You can take a look at a list of books previously suggested by InspireSeattle members or make your
own suggestion at the book club or online.
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Provide us with your email address to
receive invitations to future book club
meetings:
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Reviews of books by members of InspireSeattle:
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What we're reading for our
Sunday,
March 4, 2012 gathering:
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
by Eliza Griswold
Griswold may be the first to explain how global warming intensifies religious conflict. For as she
travels the climactically vulnerable region near 10 degrees latitude, she sees climate change
exacerbating tensions dividing 700 million Muslims and 1.2 billion Christians. These tensions
emerge in probing interviews with religious leaders—Christian and Muslim—aflame with spiritual
passions now rare in the secular West. Yet Griswold also discovers how the West has helped incubate
the region’s interfaith hostility. It was, after all, Western colonizers whose arbitrary boundaries
helped harden religious differences: in Sudan, for instance, the British established the tenth parallel
as a partition between the Islamic north and the Christian south. More recently, it was the U.S.-led
invasion of distant Afghanistan that triggered bloody clashes between Muslim and Christian mobs in the
Middle Belt of Nigeria. And in Indonesia, Griswold listens to angry jihadists certain that the spread
of fast-food restaurants signals a threatening Christian onslaught. Here and elsewhere Griswold teases
out the threads of a complex fabric of religious doctrine, capitalist economics, ethnic pride, and
power politics. Despite the complexities, Griswold retains her hope that authentic faith can yet
transcend theological differences and foster peace. A compelling portrait of embattled human communities
yearning for more-than-human succor. (From Booklist)
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Planning ahead? We will be discussing
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin
at the gathering to follow the one described above.
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