Oct

21 2020

Read & Rendezvous Book Club: The Year of Living Biblically

 

Zoom

Contact Ruby Vargeson
rvargeson@sbjf.org

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying―as literally as possible―the tenets of the Bible.

Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers.

The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history’s most influential book with new eyes.

The book is available for purchase locally at Chaucer's Books or Amazon.

We will convene on Zoom to discuss the book. Link and password will be provided to those who request to join. Let’s get reading!

Please contact Ruby Vargeson at rvargeson@sbjf.org to sign up.