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October 2018 Books

Money and Soul

By Pamela Haines. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 450), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Fretting about economics and money is not new…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Diana Roose

October 2018 Books

Giving Up Something Good for Something Better

By Sister Alegria del Senor and Sister Confianza del Senor (Beth Blodgett and Prairie Naoma Cutting). Amigas Press, 2017. 362…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Seres Kyrie

October 2018 Books

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

October 2018 Books

The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650

By John Rees. Verso, 2016. 512 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Some Friends hold that the first generation of Quakers belong…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

October 2018 Books

Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

By Miko Peled. Just World Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.95/paperback; $20.99/eBook. In Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

October 2018 Books

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. 272 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback (available June 2019); $13.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Judith Favor

October 2018 Books

The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey

By Michael Gellert. Prometheus Books, 2018. 286 pages. $26/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. As a Conservative Jew—the muddled middle between Reform and Orthodox—I…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

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Money and Soul

October 1, 2018

Giving Up Something Good for Something Better

October 1, 2018

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

October 1, 2018