What is "Reading For Life"?

A year-long program centered around four book lectures and focused on the act of reading. Community discussions and podcasts will be interspersed between lectures.

Reading For Life is a movement of the imagination toward the realization of genuine community. We invite people from all sectors of society to read together in a shared learning adventure.

The experience is structured like a book group, but one skillfully facilitated to maintain the richest possible dialogue among the participants and the source text. The core idea is that works of literature offer precious resources of energy and vision for the creation and sustenance of healthy communities.

Reading For Life leverages this unique resource to grow community from the inside-out  - to link imaginations to imaginations in an ongoing conversation about the concerns we share and aspirations we harbor. It is educational and entertaining in the richest sense of both terms, a living classroom as wide and deep as our collective spirit can imagine.