Race and Anti-Racism

March 2017: Race & Anti-Racism

Move in Our Midst by Paul Ricketts
Welcoming the Strong Black Woman by Valerie Brown
Stumbling Forward Toward Racial Justice Among Friends by Lucy Duncan and Noah White
Memorializing Friends of African Descent, by Liz Oppenheimer with George Schaefer
Friends Journal Books

News

News, March 2017

News from Friends: NEYM donates records to UMass Amherst; Quaker gives invocation at Pennsylvania State Senate; Cambridge Friends worship as… Staff
March 2017 Books

This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

By Mark Engler and Paul Engler. Nation Books, 2016. 368 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] Toward the end of This… Reviewed by Steve Chase
March 2017 Books

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback; $18.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] A lot of attention has been given to… Reviewed by Patience Schenck
March 2017 Books

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Edited by Jesmyn Ward. Scribner, 2016. 240 pages. $25/hardcover; $16/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] In his book The Fire Next Time,… Reviewed by Greg Williams
March 2017 Books

Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us

By Shane Claiborne. HarperOne, 2016. 320 pages. $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] “There is a contagion of violence in the… Reviewed by Bill and Pat Mueller
March 2017 Books

Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

By D. L. Mayfield. HarperOne, 2016. 224 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook.  [Buy on Quakerbooks] I grew up an Evangelical Friend. Despite… Reviewed by Brent Bill
March 2017 Books

The Market as God

By Harvey Cox. Harvard University Press, 2016. 278 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook. [Buy on QuakerBooks] The ancient view of the… Reviewed by Chris Mohr
March 2017 Books

Autumn in the Fields of Language

By Jeanne Lohmann. Fithian Press, 2016. 96 pages. $14/paperback. [Buy at QuakerBooks] This past summer I spent several very sweet… Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser
March 2017 Books

Rules for Giving

By Timothy Sunderland. Self-published, 2016. 315 pages. $11.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. A teenage couple visits a California abortion clinic in 1971. The… In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
March 2017 Books

More Than Enough: Living Abundantly in a Culture of Excess

By Lee Hull Moses. Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. 132 pages. $16/paperback; $13/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] Moses, a minister, writes… In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
March 2017 Books

Home to Cedar Branch

By Brenda Bevan Remmes. Lake Union, 2016. 290 pages. $14.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. [Buy at QuakerBooks] The Quaker Café series continues! Friends… In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand

John Bedell Bowles

Bowles—John Bedell Bowles, 83, on November 22, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. John was born on July 29, 1933, in Karuizawa,…
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