November 2022 Book Reviews

November 2022 Book Reviews

Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace

By Valerie Brown. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 275 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. I’ve always loved the sentiment behind the saying “People may…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2022 Book Reviews

Open for Liberation: An Activist Reads the Bible

By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2022. 96 pages. $11.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. If you are a social activist who wonders if…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2022 Book Reviews

The Atheist’s Guide to Quaker Process: Spirit-Led Decisions for the Secular

By Selden W. Smith. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 472), 2021. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Friend Selden Smith has written…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

November 2022 Book Reviews

Be Patterns: Reflections on Words of George Fox

By John Andrew Gallery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 473), 2022. 27 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. George Fox did some of…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2022 Book Reviews

Walking with the Bible

By Carl Magruder, Adria Gulizia, and Colin Saxton. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 474), 2022. 47 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. In…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2022 Book Reviews

Care and Prayer: Reflections on the Sacred Task of Caregiving

By Gunilla Norris. Twenty-Third Publications, 2022. 96 pages. $12.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. In Care and Prayer: Reflections on the Sacred Task of…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

November 2022 Book Reviews

Analog Christian: Cultivating Contentment, Resilience, and Wisdom in the Digital Age

By Jay Y. Kim. InterVarsity Press, 2022. 192 pages. $17/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are still revealing themselves.…

Reviewed by Tom Paxson

November 2022 Book Reviews

Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest: From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again

By Ruth Haley Barton. InterVarsity Press, 2022. 264 pages. $25/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. The story is familiar to all of us. Following…

Reviewed by William Shetter

November 2022 Book Reviews

Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality

By Matthew Fox, selected with an introduction by Charles Burack. Orbis Books, 2022. 272 pages. $24/paperback; $19.50/eBook. When I was…

Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn

November 2022 Book Reviews

After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort

By Eric Dean Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 2022. 480 pages. $19.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. It was a hot summer in Philadelphia, Pa.…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2022 Book Reviews

Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery (The Illustrated Edition)

By Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe. The MIT Press, 2022. 224 pages. $29.95/hardcover. As I was preparing this review, my…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2022 Book Reviews

American Refuge: True Stories of the Refugee Experience

By Diya Abdo. Steerforth Press / Truth to Power, 2022. 176 pages. $16.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. American Refuge contains stories retold by…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

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Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace

November 1, 2022

Open for Liberation: An Activist Reads the Bible

November 1, 2022

The Atheist’s Guide to Quaker Process: Spirit-Led Decisions for the Secular

November 1, 2022