OK, we’re not Oprah, but we can still have a book club, no? If so, I heartily recommend Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith as our first (a generous gift by a dear friend, I should add). 
In my mind, it’s one thing for all of us to attempt to articulate the Mormon “Middle Way” experience. It’s an entirely different thing altogether to have a non-Mormon articulate our experience better than we can ourselves. For me, that’s what Krista Tippett does in this book. Allow me to illustrate:
As a journalist, I’m committed to drawing out the contours and depths of what I call “the vast middle” — left, right and center between the poles of competing answers that have hardened our cultural discourse. In the vast middle, faith is as much about questioning as it is about certainties. It is possible to be a believer and a listener at the same time, to be both fervent and searching, to nurture a vital identity and to wonder at the identities of others.
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