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 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 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 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,… 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Mitchell Santine Gould
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