September 2019 Books

Quaker Book Reviews

Why I Am a Pacifist

By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. If the pilgrim’s path is never easy, how does… Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams
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Trying to Be Truthful

By Chel Avery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 455), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. eflections on trying to be truthful are particularly… Reviewed by Tom Paxson
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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

By John Shelby Spong. HarperOne, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. any Friends acknowledge the Christian roots of the Religious… Reviewed by Paul Buckley
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Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision

By John Dominic Crossan and Sarah Sexton Crossan. HarperOne, 2018. 224 pages. $39.99/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. ohn Dominic Crossan, author of numerous… Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen
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So You Want to Talk About Race

By Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2018. 256 pages. $27/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. hen I attend my monthly meeting, I am one… Reviewed by Lori Patterson
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Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By Larry Yang. Wisdom Publications, 2017. 280 pages. $17.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. ith Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community,… Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally
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The Book of Delights: Essays

By Ross Gay. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. 288 pages. $23.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. I was introduced to Ross Gay when… Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee
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When Poets Pray

By Marilyn McEntyre. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. 160 pages. $19.99/hardcover or eBook. “In prayer, as in so many… Reviewed by Judith Favor

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Why I Am a Pacifist

September 1, 2019

Trying to Be Truthful

September 1, 2019

Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

September 1, 2019