February 2022 Books

February 2022 Books

Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times: Lessons from the Quakers on Blending Faith, Daily Life, and Activism

By J. Brent Bill. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2021. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Prolific author and “public Friend” J.…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

February 2022 Books

Messages to Meetings

By Brian Drayton. Inner Light Books, 2021. 115 pages. $30/hardcover; $15/paperback. Then, how important is the “foolishness of preaching,” how…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

February 2022 Books

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement

Edited by Audrea Lim. The New Press, 2021. 352 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. This collection of stories about local citizen…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2022 Books

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

By Ranae Lenor Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. Traveling on the water taught me…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

February 2022 Books

Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 396 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. If we want Jesus’s ethical teachings all…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

February 2022 Books

Flashes of Grace: 33 Encounters with God

By Patrick Henry. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021. 318 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. The title is phrased in such…

Reviewed by William Shetter

February 2022 Books

How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements: Some Historical Examples and a Few Ideas on Reducing the Risk

By Steve Chase. ICNC Press, 2021. 50 pages. $7.99/paperback; $2/eBook; free PDF available at nonviolent-conflict.org. In this booklet published by…

Reviewed by George Lakey

February 2022 Books

Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By Kaitlin B. Curtice. Brazos Press, 2020. 208 pages. $35.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback or eBook. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God is…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

February 2022 Books

Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

By Pope Francis and Austen Ivereigh. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 160 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback (available in March); $13.99/eBook. As a…

Reviewed by Phila Hoopes

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Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times: Lessons from the Quakers on Blending Faith, Daily Life, and Activism

February 1, 2022

Messages to Meetings

February 1, 2022

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement

February 1, 2022