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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty‐First Century

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on March 1, 2017

By Mark Engler and Paul Engler. Nation Books, 2016. 368 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] Toward the end of This […]

Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and the author of Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction to the Quaker Way and Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness.

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By Reviewed by Patience Schenck on March 1, 2017

By Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback; $18.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] A lot of attention has been given to […]

Patience Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and the Annapolis Human Relations Commission.

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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

By Reviewed by Greg Williams on March 1, 2017

Edited by Jesmyn Ward. Scribner, 2016. 240 pages. $25/hardcover; $16/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] In his book The Fire Next Time, […]

Greg Williams is a member of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, Mass. (New England Yearly Meeting). Greg is working around in-reach and outreach relating to racial justice concerns. He recently received a Legacy Grant from NEYM to address this concern.

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Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us

By Reviewed by Bill and Pat Mueller on March 1, 2017

By Shane Claiborne. HarperOne, 2016. 320 pages. $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] “There is a contagion of violence in the […]

Bill and Pat Mueller are members of St. Lawrence Valley Meeting in Ottawa (Canadian Yearly Meeting). They edit a monthly inspirational “Inlook-Outlook Letter,” part of their meeting’s prison ministry. Bill can be contacted at [email protected].

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Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

By Reviewed by Brent Bill on March 1, 2017

By D. L. Mayfield. HarperOne, 2016. 224 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] I grew up an Evangelical Friend. Despite […]

Brent Bill is Friends General Conference’s associate secretary for communications, publications, and outreach. A member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, his newest book is Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Second Edition).

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The Market as God

By Reviewed by Chris Mohr on March 1, 2017

By Harvey Cox. Harvard University Press, 2016. 278 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook. [Buy on QuakerBooks] The ancient view of the […]

Chris Mohr is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., and is a trustee of Friends Publishing Corporation.

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Autumn in the Fields of Language

By Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser on March 1, 2017

By Jeanne Lohmann. Fithian Press, 2016. 96 pages. $14/paperback. [Buy at QuakerBooks] This past summer I spent several very sweet […]

Michael S. Glaser is a professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 to 2009. Coeditor of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, he offers poetry retreats at Kirkridge in Bangor, Pa. The next one will take place October 4–7.

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Rules for Giving

By In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand on March 1, 2017

By Timothy Sunderland. Self‐published, 2016. 315 pages. $11.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. A teenage couple visits a California abortion clinic in 1971. The […]

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More Than Enough: Living Abundantly in a Culture of Excess

By In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand on March 1, 2017

By Lee Hull Moses. Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. 132 pages. $16/paperback; $13/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] Moses, a minister, writes […]

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Home to Cedar Branch

By In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand on March 1, 2017

By Brenda Bevan Remmes. Lake Union, 2016. 290 pages. $14.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] The Quaker Café series continues! Friends […]

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