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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects

By Reviewed by Pamela Haines on June 1, 2016

By Joanna Macy and Molly Brown. New Society Publishers, 2014. 285 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.25/eBook. String together the first three chapter […]

Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

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Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

By Reviewed by Samuel Mahaffy on June 1, 2016

By Soong‐Chan Rah. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 224 pages. $17/paperback; $13.99/eBook. From the heartland of North American Evangelical Christianity, Soong‐Chan Rah […]

Samuel Mahaffy and his family fellowship with Olympia (Wash.) Meeting. With his colleagues, Samuel facilitates a process for faith communities divided by conflict to find the Voice of Common Vision through sharing and integrating both voices of grief and celebration into a liturgy for restoration of broken relationships.

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The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on June 1, 2016

By Paul B. Moyer. Cornell University Press, 2015. 272 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. On November 29, 1752, a daughter was born […]

Paul Buckley is a Quaker historian, theologian, and author of The Essential Elias Hicks.

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Quakers: That of God in Everyone

By Reviewed by Larry Ingle on June 1, 2016

Directed by Isaac Stambaugh, written by Donne Hayden. Rebel Pilgrim Productions, 2015. 90 minutes. $19.99/DVD. Having never reviewed a video […]

Larry Ingle is an historian of Quakerism and a member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting. He is retired from the History Department of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. His book Nixon’s First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President was published in 2015.

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Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics: A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom

By Reviewed by William Shetter on June 1, 2016

Edited by Charles Ringma and Irene Alexander. Cascade Books, 2015. 440 pages. $48/paperback or eBook. Since this book offers a […]

William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting.

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Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals

By Reviewed by Margaret Fisher on June 1, 2016

By Gracia Fay Ellwood. Wipf and Stock, 2014. 217 pages. $27/paperback; $9.99/eBook. How do we reconcile our experience of divine […]

Margaret Fisher is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting and of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals.

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Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000

By Reviewed by J.E. McNeil on June 1, 2016

By Kris Hermes. PM Press, 2015. 336 pages. $22.95/paperback. The author, a legal worker (non‐lawyer) member of the National Lawyers […]

J. E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and an attorney member of the National Lawyers Guild, off and on depending on the pressure to support military or violent solutions within the local chapter.

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