October 2021 Books

October 2021 Books

A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

Edited by Sarah Bessey. Convergent Books, 2021. 176 pages. $20/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. A reader who opens this book expecting yet another…

Reviewed by William Shetter

October 2021 Books

Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

By Brian D. McLaren. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2021. 256 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Although this book is clearly written for disillusioned…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

October 2021 Books

Leap to Wholeness: How the World Is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt

By Sky Nelson-Isaacs. North Atlantic Books, 2021. 328 pages. $19.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. How do our choices lead us toward, or away…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

October 2021 Books

Struggling with (Non)violence

By Julie Marie Todd. In Media Res, 2020. 280 pages. $18.98/paperback. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know By Erica…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

October 2021 Books

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

By Peniel E. Joseph. Basic Books, 2020. 384 pages. $30/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Living through a historic era is no guarantee…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

October 2021 Books

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders

By Todd Miller. City Lights Books, 2021. 180 pages. $14.95/paperback or eBook. Todd Miller has spent much of his adult…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

October 2021 Books

Intimations: Six Essays

By Zadie Smith. Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $10.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

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A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

October 1, 2021

Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It

October 1, 2021

Leap to Wholeness: How the World Is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt

October 1, 2021