October 2015: Faithful Living

October 2015 / Faithful Living Realizing Wholeness   Sa’ed Atshan Convergence   Bristol, Teran, Haynes Waking Up in the White Garden   Scott Holmes Quaker Works   Quaker Org Profiles Quaker Books October 2015

Poetry

Talk with Me

FJ Poetry: "This dawn wind I have given you..." Manuela Popovici
Features

Convergence

UPDATE June 2018: "In response to the continuing administration policy of separating asylum-seeking parents from their children, as young as… David Bristol, Lee Teran, and Gretchen Haynes
Features

26 Weekends at Columbia County Jail: Part Two

A Quaker's principled jailing results in a journal from behind bars. Part two. Joseph Olejak
Poetry

Silent Worship

FJ Poetry: "Mind staccato: warblers flit from bite to bite..." Errol Hess
Witness

Bringing Decolonizing Home

FJ Witness Meagan Fischer
October 2015 Books

Leading in the Light: Celebrating 325 Years of Quaker Education in America

Edited by Deborra Sines Pancoe, et al. Friends Council on Education, 2014. 129 pages. $15/paperback. Leading in the Light describes…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Diana Roose

October 2015 Books

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson. Spiegel & Grau, 2014. 336 pages. $28/hardcover; $16/paperback; $11.99/eBook. “How can people be so mean?” That is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

October 2015 Books

Thomas Merton, Peacemaker: Meditations on Merton, Peacemaking, and the Spiritual Life

By John Dear. Orbis Books, 2015. 206 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. The centenary year of Thomas Merton’s birth in 1915 is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William Shetter

October 2015 Books

Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis

By Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler, and A. J. Swoboda. Baker Academic, 2014. 255 pages. $26.99/paperback or eBook. Introducing…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jim Kessler

October 2015 Books

Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

By David C. Korten. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015. 169 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Finally we have a book that brings together the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

October 2015 Books

Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World

By Jonathan Mingle. St. Martin’s Press, 2015. 400 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. The village of Kumik, high in the Himalayas, is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Film Review

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret and Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret Produced by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. A.U.M. Films and First Spark Media, 2014. 91 minutes.…

Reviewed by Two titles reviewed by Margaret Fisher

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