June/July 2018 Books

June/July 2018 Books

Seeds That Change the World: Essays on Quakerism, Spirituality, Faith, and Culture

By Debbie L. Humphries. QuakerPress of FGC, 2017. 143 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Is it okay to shout out to Friends,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

June/July 2018 Books

Mary and William Dyer: Quaker Light and Puritan Ambition in Early New England

By Johan Winsser. Self-published, 2017. 345 pages (includes appendix and extensive notes). $24.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Mary Dyer’s story as a Quaker…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

June/July 2018 Books

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

By Elizabeth Ford. Regan Arts, 2017. 247 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. How many of us could survive one day in…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

June/July 2018 Books

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

By Rima Vesely-Flad. Fortress Press, 2017. 226 pages. $34/paperback; $4.99/eBook. A couple of years ago, I visited a man I…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

June/July 2018 Books

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

By Morgan Jerkins. Harper Perennial, 2018. 272 pages. $15.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. I was drawn to Morgan Jerkins’s writing because I feel…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Anna McCormally

June/July 2018 Books

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

By Gregory Boyle. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 224 pages. $26/hardcover; $16/paperback (available in September); $13.99/eBook. Five years ago I began…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

June/July 2018 Books

The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

By Helen Thorpe. Scribner, 2017. 396 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in September); $14.99/eBook. Imagine if you can that you are,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Dave Austin

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Seeds That Change the World: Essays on Quakerism, Spirituality, Faith, and Culture

June 1, 2018

Mary and William Dyer: Quaker Light and Puritan Ambition in Early New England

June 1, 2018

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

June 1, 2018