August 2015 Books

August 2015 Books

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East: A Memoir

By Ron Young. Resource Publications, 2014. 299 pages. $35/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I finished Ron Young’s Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Max L. Carter

August 2015 Books

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…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Paul Buckley

August 2015 Books

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 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin…

Reviewed by Reviewed by David Etheridge

August 2015 Books

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…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

What 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…

Sumoud: 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…
August 2015 Books

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 Pennsylvania’s…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William and Pat Mueller

August 2015 Books

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. Baker’s book begins on a surprising…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

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Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East: A Memoir

August 1, 2015

Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment

August 1, 2015

Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town

August 1, 2015