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November 2016 Books
November 2016 Books
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
By Jim Wallis. Brazos Press, 2016. 272 pages. $21.99/hardcover or eBook. This book is as good a summary of the…
Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck
November 2016 Books
Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too
By George Lakey. Melville House, 2016. 304 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. If the title of this book conjures up an image…
Reviewed by Pamela Haines
November 2016 Books
Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)
Edited by James W. Hood. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2016. 167 pages. $19.95/paperback. The central thread that holds together…
Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser
November 2016 Books
A Quaker Approach to Research, and Climate, Food, and Violence
A Quaker Approach to Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment By Gray Cox, with Charles Blanchard, Geoff Garver, Keith Helmuth,…
Two titles reviewed by Philip Favero
November 2016 Books
Toward a Right Relationship with Finance: Debt, Interest, Growth, and Security
By Pamela Haines, Ed Dreby, David Kane, and Charles Blanchard. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 9, 2016. 126…
Reviewed by Tom Head
November 2016 Books
Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith
By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…
Reviewed by Brian Drayton
November 2016 Books
Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change
By Stephen A. Jurovics. Morehouse Publishing, 2016. 155 pages. $18/paperback; $16/eBook. Ever since Evangelical Protestants rediscovered that the world is…
Reviewed by Rob Pierson
November 2016 Books
The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities
By Didi Pershouse. Mycelium Books, 2016. 301 pages. $19.95/paperback. “When we stand in the center and look at the whole,…
Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt
November 2016 Books
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
By Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby. Pluto Press, 2015. 211 pages. $28/paperback; $21.99/eBook. As a Quaker who believes in both…
Reviewed by Richard Taylor
November 2016 Books
A Seal upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs
By Michael Birkel. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 438), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”—some of us can remember…
Reviewed by Brad Sheeks
November 2016 Books
Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One
By Robert Griswold. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 439), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Robert Griswold offers this brief pamphlet in an…
Reviewed by Marty Grundy
November 2016 Books
Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity
By Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman. Beacon Press, 2016. 181 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. Before we begin, let us pause for a…
Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould
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America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
November 1, 2016
Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too
November 1, 2016
Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)
November 1, 2016