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March 2017 Books
March 2017 Books
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
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…
Reviewed by Steve Chase
March 2017 Books
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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…
Reviewed by Patience Schenck
March 2017 Books
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
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,…
Reviewed by Greg Williams
March 2017 Books
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us
By Shane Claiborne. HarperOne, 2016. 320 pages. $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] “There is a contagion of violence in the…
Reviewed by Bill and Pat Mueller
March 2017 Books
Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
By D. L. Mayfield. HarperOne, 2016. 224 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] I grew up an Evangelical Friend. Despite…
Reviewed by Brent Bill
March 2017 Books
The Market as God
By Harvey Cox. Harvard University Press, 2016. 278 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook. [Buy on QuakerBooks] The ancient view of the…
Reviewed by Chris Mohr
March 2017 Books
Autumn in the Fields of Language
By Jeanne Lohmann. Fithian Press, 2016. 96 pages. $14/paperback. [Buy at QuakerBooks] This past summer I spent several very sweet…
Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser
March 2017 Books
Rules for Giving
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…
In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
March 2017 Books
More Than Enough: Living Abundantly in a Culture of Excess
By Lee Hull Moses. Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. 132 pages. $16/paperback; $13/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] Moses, a minister, writes…
In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
March 2017 Books
Home to Cedar Branch
By Brenda Bevan Remmes. Lake Union, 2016. 290 pages. $14.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] The Quaker Café series continues! Friends…
In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
March 1, 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
March 1, 2017
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
March 1, 2017