UMW Reading Program

About the Program

The United Methodist Women Reading Program is designed to encourage reading and continued faith development for United Methodist women. Each year, books are carefully selected by the Women’s Division in four categories: education for mission, nurturing for community, social action, and spiritual growth. Large print and children’s books are also included in the selections. A member of UMW may participate in the program by reading a minimum of four books each year (one from each category). Specific information about the program can be found on the program website, linked below under “Websites.”

Druid Hills United Methodist Women secretary of program resources is Betty McMahon. Betty orders all UMW-owned copies of reading program books and manages their circulation out of the Quillian classroom. A list of these titles is available on the UMW bulletin board outside the Quillian classroom. As a supplement to the UMW-owned books, the William D. Thomson Library is committed to serving the needs of United Methodist Women. A list of Reading Program books owned by the library appears below. These are available for general circulation by anyone in the church, not just women.

Books may be checked-out for three-week periods, renewable once. If you are not able to locate a specific book, please submit a request to library@druidhillsumc.org and we will reserve it and notify you when it is available.

Reading Program Books Available in Our Library

2007 Reading Program

George, Sherron Kay. Called as Partners in Christ’s Service: The Practice of God’s Mission. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2004.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BV2570 .G46 2004
Girzone, Joseph F. Joshua in a Troubled World. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
- Adult Fiction Call Number: Girzone Joshua
Saliers, Don E. A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: ML3921 .S17 2004
Wallis, Jim. God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BR526 .W265 2005

2006 Reading Program

Ahn, Christine (ed.). Shafted: Free Trade and America’s Working Poor. Oakland: Food First Books, 2003.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: HF1455 .S525 2003
Brown, Patricia D. Paths to Prayer: Finding Your Own Way to the Presence of God. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BV210.3 .B76 2003
Shaw, Robert. The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children. New York: Regan Books, 2003.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: RJ506 .C65 S53 2003
Skylight Paths Publishing (ed.). Spiritual Perspectives on America’s Role as Superpower. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Pub., 2003.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BL65 .I55 S68 2003

2005 Reading Program

Eck, Diana L. A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BL2525 .E35 2001
Halaby, Laila. West of the Jordan: a novel. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003.
- Adult Fiction Call Number: Halaby West
Rifkin, Ira. Spiritual Perspectives on Globalization: Making Sense of Economic and Cultural Upheaval. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Pub., 2004.
- Adult Non-Fiction Call Number: BL65 .G55 R54 2004