June/July 2017 Books

June/July 2017 Books

A Letter from James: Essays in Quaker History

By John Lampen. The Hope Project, 2016. 107 pages. Free digital download available at hopeproject.co.uk. Many Friends will be familiar… Reviewed by Thomas Hamm
June/July 2017 Books

A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

By Dawn G. Marsh. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 240 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom is a… Reviewed by Neal Burdick
June/July 2017 Books

By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience

By Heidi Blocher. Apprenticeship to Jesus, 2016. 120 pages. $7 suggested donation/paperback. Heidi Blocher, a New England Friend who has… Reviewed by Brian Drayton
June/July 2017 Books

Gospel—The Book of Matthew: A New Translation with Commentary—Jesus Spirituality for Everyone

Translated by Thomas Moore. Skylight Paths Publishing, 2016. 224 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $19.95/eBook. The other day over lunch, I told… Reviewed by Rob Pierson
June/July 2017 Books

The Peace Class: A Study of Effective Cheek-turning, Neighbor-loving and Sword-to-plowshare Conversion

By Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon. Self-published, 2015. 220 pages. $12.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Both Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon write well,… Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley
June/July 2017 Books

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing

Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald. The Library of America, 2016. 850 pages. $40/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This is an ambitious book, and it… Reviewed by J.E. McNeil
June/July 2017 Books

The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy

By Michael McCarthy. New York Review Books, 2016. 273 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. “People from a planet without flowers would think… Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt
June/July 2017 Books

Just Living

By Meredith Egan. Amity Publishers, 2016. 446 pages. $17.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Meredith Egan’s debut novel, Just Living, explores the ideas embedded… Reviewed by Jim Hood

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A Letter from James: Essays in Quaker History

June 1, 2017

A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

June 1, 2017

By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience

June 1, 2017