November 2015: Books and Pop Culture

November 2015 / Books & Pop Culture Consensus in Tech   Interview with Sue GardnerA Quaker Meme Project   Keith HelmuthA Pacifist’s Defense of the Media   Justin LeverettThanksgiving on the IRT   Jeanine M. Dell’OlioBeyond Goodness Sex   Su Penn FJ Books November 2015

Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia (from the Spanish verb “querer”) is a metaphysical…

Nixon’s First Cover-Up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President

By H. Larry Ingle. University of Missouri Press, 2015. 288 pages. $50/hardcover or eBook. In the wake of the Watergate…

Coming Home: Ministry That Matters with Veterans and Military Families

By Zachary Moon. Chalice Press, 2015. 79 pages. $14.99/paperback; $7.50 eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Home-Ministry-Veterans-Military/dp/0827205384″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] If you want to gain insight into what…

A Measure of Light: A Novel

Most readers know Mary Dyer as a martyr for religious freedom, specifically Quaker faith. But few of us know her…

Go Stand Upon the Rock

By Samuel Michael Lemon. Buckhorn Press, 2012. 297 pages. $16.95/paperback. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Samuel-Michael-Lemon-Ed-D/dp/1494211564″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] In Go Stand Upon the Rock, Samuel Michael Lemon,…

The Invention of Wings

By Sue Monk Kidd. Viking, 2014. 369 pages. $27.95/hardback; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/The-Invention-Wings-Monk-Kidd/dp/0143121707″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] The novel The Invention of Wings by Sue…

The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School

By Valerie Brown and Kristen Olson. Corwin, 2015. 208 pages. $24.95/paperback or eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/The-Mindful-School-Leader-Leadership/dp/148330308X”]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] If education is the key to…

Parts & Labor

By Letitia VanSant & the Bonafides. Self-released, 2015. $7/digital. Download available at letitiavansant.bandcamp.com. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Parts-Labor/dp/B00TB5LKP4″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Letitia VanSant, the second (true) name…

60th Anniversary: Books

A look back at 60 years of Quaker reading.

Milestones November 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.