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CHCA Book Club: Beth Guckenberger, Throw the First Punch
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MSL Campus: Lindner Theater
Join us for one of CHCA's Book Club speaker series. Whether you've read the book or not, you're invited to come and hear from this outstanding author and speaker who is a part of our CHCA community.

Hosted by Dr.Dean Nicholas,
CHCA Head of School
 

As a learning community and faith community, I deeply believe that as we read, discuss, and learn together around a shared text, we will grow individually and as a community as we wrestle with how to be salt and light in the world.

- Dr. Dean Nicholas, CHCA Head of School
Excerpt from Dr. Nicholas's blog post: Why We Read.

 

This event is FREE and tickets are not required.


About the Author

Beth Guckenbergerand her husband, Todd, live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio where they serve as Co-Executive Directors of Back2Back Ministries. After graduating from Indiana University, the Guckenbergers moved to Monterrey, Mexico where they lived for 15 years. Between biological, foster, and adopted children, they have raised eleven children. Beth Guckenberger is the author of eleven books, including adult and children’s titles. She speaks regularly at conferences, youth gatherings, and church services, using storytelling and drawing from her field experience as a missionary, Bible teacher, and parent. Connect with Beth and her work at www.recklessfaith.com.

 

Upcoming speaker:
  • Jen Pollock Michel, Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of “And” in an Either-Or World: 05/02/23, 7:00 p.m. @ MSL Campus: Lindner Theater

CHCA Book Club: Jen Pollock Michel, Surprised by Paradox: The Promise of "And" in an Either-Or World
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MSL Campus: Lindner Theater
Join us for one of CHCA's Book Club speaker series. Whether you've read the book or not, you're invited to come and hear from this outstanding author and speaker who is a part of our CHCA community.

Hosted by Dr.Dean Nicholas,
CHCA Head of School
 

As a learning community and faith community, I deeply believe that as we read, discuss, and learn together around a shared text, we will grow individually and as a community as we wrestle with how to be salt and light in the world.

- Dr. Dean Nicholas, CHCA Head of School
Excerpt from Dr. Nicholas's blog post: Why We Read.

 

This event is FREE and tickets are not required.


About the Author

Jen Pollock Michel is a writer, speaker, coach, and podcast host. She is the author of five books: A Habit Called Faith, Surprised by Paradox (winner of Christianity Today’s 2020 Award of Merit for Beautiful Orthodoxy), Keeping Place, and Teach Us to Want (winner of Christianity Today’s 2015 Book of the Year). Her fifth book, In Good Time, releases December 13, 2022. She holds a B.A. in French from Wheaton College, an M.A. in Literature from Northwestern University, and is working to complete an M.F.A from Seattle Pacific University. After eleven years of living in Toronto, Jen now lives in Cincinnati with her husband and her two youngest children. You can follow Jen on Twitter and Instagram @jenpmichel, subscribe to her Monday letters at www.jenpollockmichel.com, and listen to episodes of the Englewood Review of Books podcast.