March 2021 Books

March 2021 Books

Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

March 2021 Books

On Quakers and Pastors

By Derek Brown. Barclay Press, 2019. 370 pages. $25/paperback. Derek Brown is a professor of pastoral ministries at Barclay College…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

March 2021 Books

Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

By Drew Lawson. Inner Light Books, 2020. 158 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $10/eBook. The subtitle of Movings of Divine Love is…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

March 2021 Books

Praying the Psalms with Beads: A Book of Daily Prayers

By Nan Lewis Doerr. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020. 223 pages. $15/paperback or eBook. Nan Lewis Doerr, an Episcopal…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

March 2021 Books

The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters

By Mark Nepo. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2020. 288 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. In developing his soul, philosopher and poet Mark Nepo…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

March 2021 Books

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. The New Press, 2020. 320 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. Prison by Any Other Name turns…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

March 2021 Books

When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

By Jim McCloskey, with Philip Lerman. Doubleday, 2020. 320 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $17/paperback (available June 1); $13.99/eBook. Jim McCloskey was an…

Reviewed by Beth Taylor

March 2021 Books

A Cord of Three Strands

By Christy Distler. Avodah Books, 2020. 444 pages. $14.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. “Entwined, the strands are stronger. That reminded me of us,…

Reviewed by Barbara Luetke

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Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

March 1, 2021

On Quakers and Pastors

March 1, 2021

Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

March 1, 2021