Great Books Seminars
Rev. Dr. Leonard Sweet

April: Peter Rollins, The Fidelity of Betrayal (Paraclete Press, 2008)

November: Timothy Stoner, The God Who Smokes (Deliberate, 2008)

There are some books good enough to read to the end. There are only a few books good enough to read to the end of time. In the Great Books Seminar Series, we always try to pick the former, and sometimes are blessed with the latter. Pastors have a lot to pick from – every year 26,100 new Christian titles are published, with a grand total of three billion Christian books printed annually.

In the Great Books Seminars, we try not to consume a book. We try to receive it as a gift and let it call to us. Every book issues a "call". Hearing the call is another way of talking about "reading," and answering the call is how you allow the book to change you.

You who have been "called" are invited to join us for the "call" to be "changed" by Great Books.

REV. DR. LEONARD SWEET is the author of numerous books. He is currently the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew University, Madison, NJ, where he had been Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Theological School for five years. He previously served for eleven years as President and Professor of Church History at United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Sweet is a United Methodist elder and a member of the West Virginia Conference.