March 2019 Books

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March 2019 Books

William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

March 2019 Books

Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends

By Emma Condori Mamani. Publicaciones CALA, 2017. 117 pages. $20/paperback. When in 1919 Friends undertook missionary work in Bolivia, it…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

March 2019 Books

A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine

By Elizabeth Meyer. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 453), 2018. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet is an excellent explanation…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

March 2019 Books

The Healing Power of Stories

By Michael Bischoff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 454), 2018. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. Why do we get cancer? While there are…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

March 2019 Books

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

March 2019 Books

The Joy of Job: An Investigator’s Perspective on the Most Righteous Man on Earth

By Maribeth Vander Weele. Sagerity Press, 2018. 138 pages. $24.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The Epistle of James speaks about the “patience of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

March 2019 Books

… And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year

By Michael Hudson. ISLET-Verlag Dresden, 2018. 340 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $26.95/paperback. The authors of the Bible never guessed how puzzled we…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Forrest Curo

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William Penn: A Life

March 1, 2019

Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends

March 1, 2019

A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine

March 1, 2019