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