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Books That Have Changed Us

November 2018: Books That Have Changed Us

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Features: To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer, The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris, Genesis by John A. Minahan, and Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken.

Poetry: Communion by Nancy L. Bieber and If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by Kat Griffith.

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November 2018 Books

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 410 pages. $105/hardcover; $34.99/paperback; $28/eBook. This edited volume,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

November 2018 Books

Quaker Roots and Branches AND The One Thing Needful

Quaker Roots and Branches By John Lampen. Christian Alternative, 2018. 64 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The One Thing Needful: William Shakespeare,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

November 2018 Books

Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe

By Philip Gulley. Convergent Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Buy from Pendle Hill Bookstore The words “unlearning” and “unbelieving”…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William Shetter

November 2018 Books

On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old

By Parker J. Palmer. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018. 192 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. I rarely read a book with a highlighter in…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brent Bill

November 2018 Books

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2018. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook (title available December 2018). In June 1934 Quaker biblical scholar…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2018 Books

Faith and Play: Quaker Stories for Friends Trained in the Godly Play Method (Second Edition)

By the Faith and Play Group, edited by Melinda Wenner Bradley. QuakerPress of FGC, 2017. 140 pages. $20/paperback. How do…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

November 2018 Books

The Inner Guide versus the Inner Critic: The Journey from Judgment to Love

By Christine Wolff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 448), 2017. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Christine Wolff, a psychologist using the Diamond Approach,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2018 Books

Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity

By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

November 2018 Books

SELF-ish: A Transgender Awakening

By Chloe Schwenke. Red Hen Press, 2018. 260 pages. $17.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. At Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Women’s Retreat two years ago,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally

November 2018 Books

Treading Water at the Shark Café: A Memoir of the Yugoslav Wars

By Lyndon Back. Open Books Press, 2018. 248 pages. $17.95/paperback; $3.99/eBook. In the early 1990s, Lyndon Back was living in…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn

November 2018 Books

The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America

By Mohammed Al Samawi. William Morrow, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Mohammed Al Samawi is the son of two Yemeni…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Eileen Redden

November 2018 Books

Gut It to the Studs

By Letitia VanSant. Self-released (letitiavansant.com), 2018. 11 tracks. $15/CD or LP; $10/digital download. Letitia VanSant, Quaker indie folk and Americana…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patricia Morrison

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