# Glenbrook launches pop up book club

> Glenbrook Uniting Church is starting a book club-with a difference. A pop-up book club does not meet at a regular time, instead meeting as needed. Rev.

By Jonathan Foye · 9 March 2020 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/glenbrook-launches-pop-up-book-club/

Glenbrook Uniting Church is starting a book club-with a difference. 
 
 A pop-up book club does not meet at a regular time, instead meeting as needed. 
 
 Rev. Ellie Elia is Glenbrook Uniting Church’s minister. She explained to *Insights* that the idea for the event came out of how busy the congregation was. 
 
 “This is the second time we have run our Pop-Up Book Group,” she said.
 
 “Many people are time poor in our congregation, so regularly bible studies are difficult to maintain. The idea was to come together around a book that we all would read beforehand and discuss it over wine and cheese.”
 
 “The first book was Rachel Held Evans *Inspired*, which received much affirmation from the whole group.” 
 
 The next book, *Shameless* by Nadia Bolz Weber, is a title that Rev. Elia says, “…may produce diverse responses.”
 
[***Shameless* launched in 2019.**](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/247945/shameless-by-nadia-bolz-weber/) The book examines the subject of sexuality and shame. Bolz-Weber argues that sexuality is a gift from God for all, that has been co-opted by commercialism and toxic religion, and made into something considered dirty and shameful. The book calls for something of a sexual reformation.

 “Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes,” Bolz-Weber writes. “It is a faith of the guilty.” 

*[**Shameless: a sexual reformation**](http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=524feed7-a40f-4699-90a6-a6ae0bba9c62%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHNzbyZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#AN=CTL.1035435905&db=cat04719a) is now available at Camden Theological Library.*

*Glenbrook Uniting Church’s pop-up book group takes place on Friday, 1 May at 7:30 pm. For more information, contact Glenbrook Uniting Church **[via email.](mailto:standrews@glenbrook.unitingchurch.org.au)***