August 2018 Books

Friends Journal Books, August 2018

This month’s reviewed titles: The Ecology of Quaker Meeting by James W. Hood; A Civil Life for Uncivil Times by Paula Tarnapol Whitacre; Beautiful Rising edited by Juman Abujbara, Andrew Boyd, Dave Mitchell, and Marcel Taminato; The Magnificent Story by James Bryan Smith; The Meaning of Belief by Tim Crane; Because of This by Jim Teeters; Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles.

August 2018 Books

The Ecology of Quaker Meeting

By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

August 2018 Books

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose

By Paula Tarnapol Whitacre. Potomac Books, 2017. 320 pages. $32.95/hardcover or eBook. The story of Julia Wilbur’s life and work…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

August 2018 Books

Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South

Edited by Juman Abujbara, Andrew Boyd, Dave Mitchell, and Marcel Taminato. OR Books, 2018. 272 pages. $22/paperback; $10/eBook. “Agitate, agitate.”…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

August 2018 Books

The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2017. 190 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. James Bryan Smith is a “magnificent” writer; that is,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

August 2018 Books

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View

By Tim Crane. Harvard University Press, 2017. 224 pages. $24.95/hardcover or eBook. “I don’t believe you / You had the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

August 2018 Books

Because of This: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching: How to Live, Love, and Lead

By Jim Teeters. Barclay Press, 2018. 104 pages. $14/paperback. Jim Teeters’s new book, Because of This: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

August 2018 Books

Draw Your Weapons

By Sarah Sentilles. Random House, 2017. 320 pages. $28/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Assembled like a collage or impressionist painting, Draw Your Weapons…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lori Patterson

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The Ecology of Quaker Meeting

August 1, 2018

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose

August 1, 2018

Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South

August 1, 2018