The Shack by William P. Young BOOK DISCUSSION: Thursday, Jan. 29 @ 7PM

BOOK DISCUSSION: Thursday, Jan. 29 @ 7PM

The Shack by William P. Young
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"

Mid—Winter 2009 Book Discussion Series
@ Red Jacket Community Library
Over the course of the next four months, January through April, we will explore the concept of FAITH. How does one learn to have faith? Isn’t faith just for the simple minded? Does logical thinking allow faith?

One of the “great” thinkers of our time, Archie Bunker, said: “"Faith is something you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe." While skeptic Richard Dawkins is quoted as saying: “Faith is one of the world's great evils."

What do you think? What will you think after reading and discussing the four novels chosen for our Mid—Winter Community Book Discussion Series?