November 2023 Books

November 2023 Books

We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel AND Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the “Collective Jew”

By Eric Alterman. Basic Books, 2022. 512 pages. $35/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. By Antony Lerman. Pluto Press, 2022. 336 pages. $23.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2023 Books

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

By Danya Ruttenberg. Beacon Press, 2022. 256 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $18/paperback; $13.99/eBook. In On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2023 Books

Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World

By Jacob L. Goodson, Brad Elliott Stone, and Philip Rudolph Kuehnert. Cascade Books, 2022. 180 pages. $40/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook.…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2023 Books

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 224 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Through my reading of Indigenous writers, such as…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2023 Books

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By Nicole Eustace. Liveright, 2021. 464 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $20/paperback or eBook. In the Iroquois Book of the Great Law, the…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

November 2023 Books

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778

By Norman E. Donoghue II. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $44.95/hardcover; $35.99/eBook. Societal pressures caused by war…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

November 2023 Books

King: A Life

By Jonathan Eig. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 688 pages. $35/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. This magnificent new biography of Martin Luther King…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

November 2023 Books

Gracism: The Art of Inclusion

By David A. Anderson, revised and expanded with David Heiliger. InterVarsity Press, 2023. 192 pages. $18/paperback; $17.99/eBook. David A. Anderson…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

November 2023 Books

A Year of Slowing Down: Daily Devotions for Unhurried Living

By Alan Fadling. InterVarsity Press, 2022. 336 pages. $20/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. A Year of Slowing Down is a book of “daily”…

Reviewed by Tom Paxson

November 2023 Books

Finding a Job That Loves You Back: The Three Conversations That Will Take You from Wherever You Are to Wherever You Discover You Want to Go

By Carly Inkpen, Justin Wright, and Tad Mayer. Habitus Incorporated, 2022. 280 pages. $17.97/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Where are you in your…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

November 2023 Books

The Peace Corps: Early Days

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2023. 252 pages. $12/paperback; $6/eBook. Friend Gregory Barnes was a member of the early…

Reviewed by Katie Green

November 2023 Books

Jesus Christ, M.B.A.: A Gospel for Our Times

By Donn Weinholtz, illustrated by David Weinholtz. Self-published, 2022. 72 pages. $9.95/paperback or eBook. What will the year 2030 bring?…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

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We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel AND Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the “Collective Jew”

November 1, 2023

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

November 1, 2023

Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World

November 1, 2023