By Ron Young. Resource Publications, 2014. 299 pages. $35/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I finished Ron Youngās Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, [ā¦]
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Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East: A Memoir
Max L. Carter is retiring this year as the William R. Rogers director of Friends Center and Quaker studies at Guilford College.
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Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment
By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2014. 182 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. Jim Forest is the religious child of American Communists who [ā¦]
Paul Buckley attends Community Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. Paul is a Quaker historian, theologian, and author whose most recent book is The Essential Elias Hicks.
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Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town
By Phil Noble. NewSouth Books, 2013. 169 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In the April 16, 1963 āLetter from Birmingham Jailā Martin [ā¦]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
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Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness
By Steve Chase. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (Number 431), 2015. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet was based on a [ā¦]
Born into a Jewish family, Harvey Gillman has been a seeker for most of his life. As outreach secretary for British Quakers, he wrote A Light That Is Shining. Other works include, A Minority of One and Consider the Blackbird. He has led workshops and lectured in many places in the Quaker world. He is a member of Brighton Meeting in England.
Posted in: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book ReviewsWhat We Stand On and The Door In
What We Stand On By Paul Christiansen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (Number 429), 2014. 29 pages. $7/pamphlet. The Door In By [ā¦]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind,) Meeting. He is an avid follower of othersā personal journeys, and in a recent Pendle Hill pamphlet reflected on his own.
Posted in: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book ReviewsSumoud: Voices and Images of the Ramallah Friends School
By Betsy Brinson and Gordon Davies. Friends United Press, 2014. 142 pages. $35/hardcover. Sumoud, artfully prepared by historian Betsy Brinson [ā¦]
Maia Carter Hallward is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and an associate professor of Middle East politics and international conflict management at Kennesaw State University. She taught at the Ramallah Friends Schools from 1998 to 2000, and has led several delegations to the region to meet with Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers. Maiaās books include Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada and Transnational Activism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
By Joshua Dubler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 375 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Joshua Dubler spent one year in Pennsylvaniaās [ā¦]
William Mueller and wife Pat are members of St. Lawrence Valley Meeting in Potsdam, N.Y. They are active in the meetingās prison ministry in the region.
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
By Emerson W. Baker. Oxford University Press, 2014. 398 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. Emerson W. Bakerās book begins on a surprising [ā¦]
Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of special collections at Earlham College and a member of First Friends Meeting in New Castle, Ind. His great-aunt nine times removed, Mary Parker, was one of the women hanged in 1692.
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