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August 2016 Books
August 2016 Books
Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace
By J. Brent Bill. Abingdon Press, 2015. 208 pages. $16.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker, Brent Bill…
Reviewed by Diane Reynolds
August 2016 Books
Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey
By Marcelle Martin. Inner Light Books, 2016. 230 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback; $10/eBook. Marcelle Martin, known to many for her work…
Reviewed by Marty Grundy
August 2016 Books
A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement
By Brian Drayton and William P. Taber Jr. Tract Association of Friends, 2016. 180 pages. $20/hardcover. Late in the fourth…
Reviewed by Paul Buckley
August 2016 Books
Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity
By Steve Smith. QUPublishing, subsidiary of Quaker Universalist Fellowship, 2015. 232 pages. $22/paperback; $8.99/eBook. “Who, other than Friends, are genuinely…
Reviewed by Judith Favor
August 2016 Books
How to Read Job
By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 208 pages. $20/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Stop me if you have…
Reviewed by Douglas Bennett
August 2016 Books
Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in the Ministry
By Debbie Humphries. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #436, 2015. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. I travel in ministry quite a bit. And, for…
Reviewed by Brent Bill
August 2016 Books
Metaphors of Meaning
By Linda Wilson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #437, 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. The spiritual life is a journey. That metaphorical statement…
Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar
August 2016 Books
A Lesson in Hope
By Philip Gulley. Center Street, 2015. 260 pages. $24/hardcover; $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Phil Gulley’s latest novel, A Lesson in Hope, lives…
Reviewed by Jim Hood
August 2016 Books
Delivering the Truth (A Quaker Midwife Mystery)
By Edith Maxwell. Midnight Ink, 2016. 312 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. There is a new Quaker mystery series out, and it…
Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson
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Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace
August 1, 2016
Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey
August 1, 2016
A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement
August 1, 2016