January 2026 Books

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White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations

By Mary Watkins. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 362 pages. $24.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. White Work and Reparative Genealogy documents a psychic and spiritual…

Reviewed by Lucy Duncan

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Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair

By Hilary Giovale. Green Writers Press, 2024. 376 pages. $21.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. “My impulse was to keep a low profile and…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

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The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

By Jim Wallis. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2024. 304 pages. $30/hardcover; $19/paperback; $11.99/eBook. In The False White Gospel, preacher Jim Wallis…

Reviewed by Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven

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Alone with God: Spiritual Reflections and Essays, 2000–2024

By John Andrew Gallery. Self-published, 2025. 278 pages. $20/paperback; $4.99/eBook. This collection of 56 essays and reflections is a box…

Reviewed by Barbara Birch

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Who Turned On the Light? Stories of Hope and Healing

By Christopher E. Stern. Self-published, 2024. 189 pages. $12.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. I’ve known Chris Stern in a casual way for many…

Reviewed by John Andrew Gallery

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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

By Nijay K. Gupta. Brazos Press, 2024. 240 pages. $39.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $18.99/eBook. Comparing the Greco-Roman assumptions about religion and the…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

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Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature

By Phap Xa and Phap Luu. Parallax Press, 2025. 172 pages. $18.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Prayer in movement is a practice long-rooted…

Reviewed by Trevor Brandt

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IN BRIEF: Women’s Suffrage in Pennsylvania, 1840–1920

By Robyn S. Young. Self-published, 2024. 150 pages. $22/paperback. The introduction to this title offers readers a brief history of…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

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IN BRIEF: Working in the Commonwealth of Books, 1960–2025: A Cultural Memoir

By Keith Helmuth. Chapel Street Editions, 2025. 240 pages. $23/paperback. In 1960 longtime Friend Keith Helmuth, then in his 20s,…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

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White Work and Reparative Genealogy: Reckoning with Ancestral Debt as a Path to Racial Reparations

January 1, 2026

Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair

January 1, 2026

The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

January 1, 2026