Our "book club" met weekly to stroll through The Jesus Creed: Loving God and Loving Others (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2004), which was awarded the Christianity Today 2005 Book of the Year for Christian living.
Our author is Scot McKnight (PhD, University of Nottingham), a widely-recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. Scot currently teaches Religious Studies to undergraduates at North Park University in Chicago, and maintains an award-winning weblog. He is known for his gifted writing to both academic and popular audiences. Here are fuller biosketches from his blog and from wikipedia.
Our discussion of "The Creed" was introduced by these two lectures: