Faithful Readers
We are meeting online! You are welcome to join us.
If you would like to be part of the online gathering and discussion, please email or call the church office and we’ll add you to the list.
Email secretary@harrowunited.ca or call the church office (204) 284-0079 to be included.
Zoom Meetings 1:30-3:30pm on the last Wednesday of the month or as indicated below.
Movies on Sunday afternoons.
We have a new list of books for 2024/25. Plan to read them too and join us online for our discussions!
September 25, 2024-Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (& movie)
An exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
October 30, 2024-Take Your baby and Run by Carol Youngson
First-hand account of the shocking ineptitude and misogynistic behaviour that led to the death of twelve children, primarily infants, under the care of Dr. Jonah Odim at Winnipeg’s largest hospital in 1994.
November 27, 2024-A Town Called Solace by Mary lawson
Told through three distinct, compelling points of view, the novel cuts back and forth among these unforgettable characters to uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect them.
January 29, 2025-Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
How modern medicine has changed the experience of dying for each of us, and what we would need to do to change a system that knows a lot about prolonging life but little about tending to death.
February 26 2025-The Other Side of the River: From Church Pew to Sweat Lodge by Alf Dumont
The author walks between the two worlds of Indigenous and settler, traditional spirituality and Christianity and shares stories of building bridges between these worlds.
March 26, 2025-Akin by Emma Donaghue
The life of a retired New York professor is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in the hopes of uncovering his own mother’s wartime secrets.
April 30, 2025-My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientists’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
At 37, the author suffered a stroke and since then though her talks and this book, she provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.
May 28, 2025-The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
This novel explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re forced apart.
September 24, 2025-The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (& movie)
This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate, unfolding at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost.
June 25, 2025- Windup Dinner with book recommendations.
Mmm… Manitoba: the Stories Behind the Foods We Eat by Kimberley Moore & Janis Thiessen.