Pastor Rich’s Summer Book Club: This July, I’ll be leading a book club on Emily Heath’s: Courageous Faith: How to Rise & Resist in a Time of Fear. Heath pastors the UCC church in Exeter, NH. She’s a self-described, “Christ-follower, displaced Southerner, binary-smasher, PhD dropout, former religious “none,” fly-fishing enthusiast, progressive evangelical, gender non-conformer, amateur genealogist, recovery believer, Sox fan, Trinitarian, marriage equality advocate, LEGO lover, prepster not hipster, blogger, Reformed theologian, fantasy football fanatic, 13th generation New Hampshirite, and church lover.” She strives for a faith and a church that is “deeply rooted, radically relevant and Christ-centered.” We’ll have copies of the book available to borrow. (The Diaconate will be studying the book at their Fall retreat.) You may also purchase the book at uccresources.com or amazon.com. We’ll meet Mondays, July 1, 8, and 15 to discuss it, 7:00 p.m. in the Church Parlor.