Because the House of Bishops has its own regular meeting, and its own College for Bishops, it’s not surprising to learn that many bishops read the same books over a given year. And it’s always interesting to find out what’s on the reading list, because the ideas tend to surface in public again and again.
We’ve heard a few bishops mention to people this spring that the book of the season is a series of reflections written following the most recent Lambeth Conference. The book is called “Christ and Culture: Communion after Lambeth” and is part of the Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism series.
You can browse the book here. Or if you’d like to order it, you can do that here at Church Publishing.
The list of contributors is rather eclectic. Rowan Williams, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Victoria Matthews and Drexel Gomez are among those listed on the front cover.
One of the newsteam here at the Café mentioned that his bishop had held up a “dog-eared” copy of the book recently and commended it. So, if you wonder about what people are using to form their thoughts in the House of Bishops, perhaps you’ll want to take a look.