Most of us have absorbed a quiet heresy: that the spiritual life happens somewhere above ordinary life — in the dramatic calling, the radical commitment, the mountaintop moment. Julie Canlis argues this isn't Christianity. It's Gnosticism with an evangelical accent.

​In A Theology of the Ordinary, she builds a Trinitarian case that the Father's "it is very good" still echoes over your commute and your kitchen; that the Son didn't just die for you but inhabited every stage of ordinary human life to redeem it from the inside; and that the Spirit's playground is precisely the mundane.

​This summer we're reading it together — because the antidote to a spirituality of constant striving isn't lower expectations. It's a bigger theology.

​Over the course of four weeks, we'll meet via Zoom on Thursday evenings for a discussion facilitated by Brian Brown.

​Book not included, please provide your own copy for this book club. It can be purchased used or as an ebook here.

Please note: we will not be using Substack for this reading group. Emails will be sent out with reminders and meetings will be held and recorded via Zoom.