What is the World of Understanding?

A study/discussion/action program to increase world understanding.  Please participate as you are able.  
A reading and discussion program to enhance the understanding of world cultures and to bring peace to the world.  

We are studying various cultures, religions and groups within society  in order to increase our own understanding, so that we can become “part of the solution” and escape from being “part of the problem.” 

Click here to view brochure: A World of Understanding 2007 /2008

Current Book for Discussion

A WORLD OF UNDERSTANDING— DECEMBER AND JANUARY
AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN
THREE CUPS OF TEA: One man’s mission to promote peace one school at a time.
By Greg Mortenson

Our next book in this year's program to develop understanding of the world and its cultures, is
Three Cups of Tea, the best selling book by Greg Mortenson. Three Cups of Tea is the story of
one man's mission to promote peace one school at a time in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This
book has been on the NY Times best seller list for 91 weeks and remains number one on the list.
This narrative has been highly recommended by many members of the
parish. Books on sale for $12.00. The discussion of this book will be held February 2nd at 7:00 pm
in the Fellowship Hall

2002-3
Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Breath, Eyes, Memory;
Mia Yun (Korea), House of the Winds;
Huston Smith, Islam;
Robert Morgan (Appalachia), Blue Valleys;
Mel White (Gay), Stranger at the Gate; 

2003-4
Chinua Achebe (Western Africa), Things Fall Apart;
John G. Neihart (North American Religion), Black Elk Speaks;
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez (Colombia), Love in the Time of Cholera;
John Conroy (Northern Ireland), Belfast Diary;

2004-5
Esmeralda Santiago, When I was Puerto Rican;
Barbara Ehrenreich (Poor in America), Nickel and Dimed;
Frankye Regis (Growing up African-American in the South) Dancing with Granny;
Eric Schlosser (American Food and Bodies), Fast Food Nation;

2005-6

Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) The Kite Runner

Carlos Eire (Cuba) Waiting for Snow in Havana
Alan Paton (South Africa) Cry, the Beloved Country
Martha Beck (Those Special Children) Expecting Adam

2006-7

T.C. Boyle (Immigration) The Tortilla Curtain

Jeff Jay & Debra Jay (Addiction) Love First

Elie Wiesel (Holocaust) Night

Scott Simon (Bosnia and Serbia) Pretty Birds

2007-8

The Live Earth Global Warming Learning-to-Love-Global-Warming Survival Handbook by David de Rothschild

DARFUR Not on Our Watch:  The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast

House of Good Hope:  A Promise for a Broken City  by Michael Downs

THE EFFECTS OF WAR Falling Through the Earth  A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni

2008-9

“The Joy Luck Club” Amy Tan