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February 2019 Books
February 2019 Books
Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets
By Margery Post Abbott. Inner Light Books, 2018. 478 pages. $45/hardcover; $30/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Margery Post Abbott’s latest book presents Friends…
Reviewed by Marty Grundy
February 2019 Books
Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice
By Dwight L. Wilson, illustrated by Nancy Marstaller. Friends United Press, 2017. 226 pages. $16/paperback. The psalms of the Bible…
Reviewed by William Shetter
February 2019 Books
An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life
By Cho-Nyon Kim. James Backhouse Lectures, 2018. 38 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The slender, intriguing pamphlet An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism…
Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar
February 2019 Books
Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations On Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond
By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 452), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam is a psychologist, Quaker, and artist/writer/dancer…
Reviewed by Patricia Morrison
February 2019 Books
Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril
By Elizabeth A. Johnson. Orbis Books, 2018. 256 pages. $28/hardcover; $26/paperback; $22.50/eBook. “The creation waits eagerly for the children of…
Reviewed by Brian Drayton
February 2019 Books
The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial
By Elizabeth Fournier. New World Library, 2018. 208 pages. $15.95/paperback; $12.76/eBook. I’ve been interested in the idea of a green…
Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt
February 2019 Books
Poems from the Myst
By Michael Resman. Zumbro River Press, 2018. 176 pages. $7.40/paperback; $0.99/eBook. Deep sharing is a gift, and Michael Resman is…
Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2019 Books
The Beauty Queen of Bonthe and Other Stories of West Africa
By Gregory A. Barnes. FriendsPress, 2018. 194 pages. $12/paperback. It was a pleasure to read some of this collection and…
Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2019 Books
Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries
Directed by Janet P. Gardner. Gardner Documentary Group, 2018. 108 minutes. See Quakersthefilm.com for more information. Friend Janet Gardner and…
Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2019 Books
We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow
By Margaret Edds. University of Virginia Press, 2018. 424 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Friend Margaret Edds, a journalist by…
Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand
February 2019 Books
Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships
By Homer B. Martin and Christine B.L. Adams. Praeger, 2018. 187 pages. $37/hardcover or eBook. Quaker doctor Christine B.L. Adams…
Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand
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Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets
February 1, 2019
Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice
February 1, 2019
An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life
February 1, 2019