What will we be reading? Since we're meeting 8 weeks from now, there's plenty of time to read 2 books (also, both are on the 'not very long' side).
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by Dalai Lama XIV
Ten years ago, in the best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. With Beyond Relgion, he returns to the conversation at his most outspoken, elaborating and deepening his vision for the nonreligious way—a path to lead an ethical, happy, and spiritual life. Transcending the religion wars, he outlines a system of ethics for our shared world, one that makes a stirring appeal for a deep appreciation of our common humanity, offering us all a road map for improving human life on individual, community, and global levels.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering
on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a
powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and
society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The
second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of
cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of
aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas
are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life
of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.
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