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November 2019 Books

The Same, But Different: Ministry and the Quaker Pastor

By Phil Baisley. Friends United Press, 2018. 172 pages. $26/hardcover; $20/paperback.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret Webb

November 2019 Books

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe

By Richard Rohr. Convergent Books, 2019. 272 pages. $26/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

November 2019 Books

Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

By Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperOne, 2019. 256 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $15.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Diane Reynolds

November 2019 Books

Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

November 2019 Books

I Think You’re Wrong (But I’m Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

By Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth A. Silvers. Nelson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback (available February 2020); $9.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

November 2019 Books

Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America

By George Yancy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2019 Books

Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration

By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by David P. Austin

November 2019 Books

The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation

By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by David Etheridge

November 2019 Books

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (available January 2020); $2.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2019 Books

Losing Earth: A Recent History

By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Phil Favero

November 2019 Books

Forgotten Occupation: Life in the Syrian Golan after 50 Years of Israeli Occupation

Edited and published by Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights, 2018. 144 pages. Free PDF download at golan-marsad.org/publications.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2019 Books

The Tiny Journalist

By Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. 128 pages. $24/hardcover; $17/paperback; $9.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

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