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June/July 2016 Books
June/July 2016 Books
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects
By Joanna Macy and Molly Brown. New Society Publishers, 2014. 285 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.25/eBook. String together the first three chapter…
Reviewed by Pamela Haines
June/July 2016 Books
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
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…
Reviewed by Samuel Mahaffy
June/July 2016 Books
The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America
By Paul B. Moyer. Cornell University Press, 2015. 272 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. On November 29, 1752, a daughter was born…
Reviewed by Paul Buckley
June/July 2016 Books
Quakers: That of God in Everyone
Directed by Isaac Stambaugh, written by Donne Hayden. Rebel Pilgrim Productions, 2015. 90 minutes. $19.99/DVD. Having never reviewed a video…
Reviewed by Larry Ingle
June/July 2016 Books
Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics: A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom
Edited by Charles Ringma and Irene Alexander. Cascade Books, 2015. 440 pages. $48/paperback or eBook. Since this book offers a…
Reviewed by William Shetter
June/July 2016 Books
Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals
By Gracia Fay Ellwood. Wipf and Stock, 2014. 217 pages. $27/paperback; $9.99/eBook. How do we reconcile our experience of divine…
Reviewed by Margaret Fisher
June/July 2016 Books
Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000
By Kris Hermes. PM Press, 2015. 336 pages. $22.95/paperback. The author, a legal worker (non-lawyer) member of the National Lawyers…
Reviewed by J.E. McNeil
June/July 2016 Books
Hunting Pennies: Poems from an Appalachian Childhood
By Errol Hess. Wetknee Books, 2015. 69 pages. $5.99/paperback. Hunting Pennies reminded me of going for a dip in a…
Reviewed by Catherine Wald
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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects
June 1, 2016
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
June 1, 2016
The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America
June 1, 2016
