Quakers and Social Media

November 2016: Quakers and Social Media

Letting Our Light Shine by Mackenzie Morgan
Violent Video Games and Quaker Teens by Greyson Acquaviva
Organizing Young Adult Friends Online by Greg Woods
Behind the Scenes of QuakerSpeak by Jon Watts Interview
FJ Book Reviews

November 2016 Books

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

By Jim Wallis. Brazos Press, 2016. 272 pages. $21.99/hardcover or eBook. This book is as good a summary of the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

November 2016 Books

Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2016. 304 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. If the title of this book conjures up an image…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2016 Books

Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)

Edited by James W. Hood. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2016. 167 pages. $19.95/paperback. The central thread that holds together…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

November 2016 Books

A Quaker Approach to Research, and Climate, Food, and Violence

A Quaker Approach to Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment By Gray Cox, with Charles Blanchard, Geoff Garver, Keith Helmuth,…

Reviewed by Two titles reviewed by Philip Favero

November 2016 Books

Toward a Right Relationship with Finance: Debt, Interest, Growth, and Security

By Pamela Haines, Ed Dreby, David Kane, and Charles Blanchard. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 9, 2016. 126…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Tom Head

November 2016 Books

Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith

By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

November 2016 Books

Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change

By Stephen A. Jurovics. Morehouse Publishing, 2016. 155 pages. $18/paperback; $16/eBook. Ever since Evangelical Protestants rediscovered that the world is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rob Pierson

November 2016 Books

The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities

By Didi Pershouse. Mycelium Books, 2016. 301 pages. $19.95/paperback. “When we stand in the center and look at the whole,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2016 Books

Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance

By Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby. Pluto Press, 2015. 211 pages. $28/paperback; $21.99/eBook. As a Quaker who believes in both…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Richard Taylor

November 2016 Books

A Seal upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs

By Michael Birkel. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 438), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”—some of us can remember…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

November 2016 Books

Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One

By Robert Griswold. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 439), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Robert Griswold offers this brief pamphlet in an…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2016 Books

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity

By Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman. Beacon Press, 2016. 181 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. Before we begin, let us pause for a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

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