August 2024 Books

August 2024 Books

A Simple Faith in a Complicated World: One Quaker’s Journey through Doubt to Faith

By Kate McNally. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 72 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The subtitle of this book points to…

Reviewed by Diana Sacerio

August 2024 Books

Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw. Broadleaf Books, 2024. 244 pages. $19.99/paperback; $17.99/eBook. It is a provocative title…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

August 2024 Books

Pluralism in Practice: Case Studies of Leadership in a Religiously Diverse America

By Elinor J. Pierce. Orbis Books, 2023. 264 pages. $34/paperback; $27.50/eBook. As the United States grows increasingly diverse, it is…

Reviewed by Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven

August 2024 Books

Forming a Global Community

By Joseph de Rivera. Vernon Press, 2022. 256 pages. $55/hardcover; $40/paperback or eBook. Forming a Global Community was both a…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

August 2024 Books

unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis

By Jessica Jacobs. Four Way Books, 2024. 210 pages. $17.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Jessica Jacobs was featured in the August 2024 episode…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Wayfaring: A Guide to Guidance

By Larry Lynn Southard. Self-published, 2023. 228 pages. £25 (about $32)/hardcover. In this thought-provoking book, Irish Friend Larry Lynn Southard…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Reporting for Duty: My Urgency for Justice and Peace

By Andrew Mills. Resource Publications, 2022. 230 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook. I’m very grateful to Friend Andrew Mills for…

Reviewed by Alice Gitchell

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Roses in the Night: Mayan Sisters Confront CIA-Backed Terror

By Malcolm Bell. Self-published, 2023. 270 pages. $19.99/paperback; $8.99/eBook. This fact-based novel traces the story of Brenda, a young Mayan…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 2024 Books

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 496 pages. $32/hardcover; $22/paperback; $15.99/eBook. The AR-15, a rifle…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

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A Simple Faith in a Complicated World: One Quaker’s Journey through Doubt to Faith

August 1, 2024

Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors

August 1, 2024

Pluralism in Practice: Case Studies of Leadership in a Religiously Diverse America

August 1, 2024