Book Study Online

An online book study group will read, mark, and inwardly digest Candida Moss’s God’s Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible. Filled with profound revelations both for what it means to be a Christian and for how we read individual texts themselves, God’s Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity. Copies are available now at the St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore and can be mailed to you if you can’t pick them up. Led by Owene Courtney.

This book study is offered on Sunday (Digital Discipes) and Friday (Reading Between the Lines) mornings at 9 a.m. on Zoom. To register for the Zoom meeting, please visit Adult Formation. Find the day you wish to participate and register using the link provided. Once you have completed registration, a Zoom meeting information will be sent to you.

Read the Book Review

God’s Ghostwriters Reading Schedule

Week 1 – Author’s note and Introduction

Week 2 – Chapter 1 Essential Workers

Week 3 – Chapter 2 Paul and his Secretaries

Week 4 – Chapter 3 Rereading the story of Jesus

Week 5 – Chapter 4 Messengers of God

Week 6 – Chapter 5 Curators of the Word

Week 7 – Chapter 6 The Faces of the Gospel

Week 8 – Chapter 7 The Faithful Christian

Week 9 – Chapter 8 Punishing the Disobedient

Week 10 – Epilogue and Acknowledgements