Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)

January 2019: A Racially Diverse Society of Friends?

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Features:
Are We Ready to Make the Necessary Changes? by Vanessa Julye
Building White Racial Stamina by Elizabeth A. Oppenheimer
Greater Racial Diversity Requires Greater Theological Diversity by Adria Gulizia
Expectant Visions of a Christian Anarchist by Zae Asa Illo
We Are Not John Woolman by Gabbreell James
An Interview with the Co-clerks of Institutional Assessment on Racism Task Force
The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society by Viv Hawkins (Online Feature)

Poetry:
Sonnet For George Fox’s Margaret by Jane Yolen

Departments:
Among Friends, To Our Readers, Forum, Service, Books, Milestones, Classifieds, Meeting Listings.

Service

We Are but God’s Workers

An outdoor meeting takes up a new ministry that grows during the colder months. Andrea Smith
January 2019 Books

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost… Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May
January 2019 Books

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

By Frances FitzGerald. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 752 pages. $35/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Frances FitzGerald offers a spectacular sweep of the… Reviewed by Zae Asa Illo
January 2019 Books

Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma

By Shelly Rambo. Baylor University Press, 2017. 196 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Christianity was born in trauma, but do… Reviewed by Tom Paxson
January 2019 Books

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

By Francisco Cantú. Riverhead Books, 2018. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback (available February 2019); $12.99/eBook. Almost four years ago, I reviewed… Reviewed by David Austin
January 2019 Books

God-Soaked Life: Discovering a Kingdom Spirituality

By Chris Webb. InterVarsity Press, 2017. 192 pages. $17/paperback; $16.99/eBook. On the back cover of the book, the author, a… Reviewed by William Shetter
January 2019 Books

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Edited by Paul Hawken. Penguin Books, 2017. 256 pages. $22/paperback; $13.99/eBook. Beautiful and big, with striking color photographs on every… Reviewed by Pamela Haines
January 2019 Books

The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep

By Mary DeMocker. New World Library, 2018. 360 pages. $16.95/paperback or eBook. Oh my gosh, what an incredible read this… Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

John Felton Gibbons

Gibbons—John Felton Gibbons, 80, on April 20, 2018, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. John was born on October 6, 1937, in…

John Rudolph Kern

Kern—John Rudolph Kern, 78, on March 18, 2018, in Abingdon, Va., where he suffered a heart attack. John was born…

Madeline Schwinge McClure

McClure—Madeline Schwinge McClure, 91, on May 22, 2018, in Bridgewater, N.J. Madeline was born on April 4, 1927, in Yorktown,…

Theodore Neff

Neff—Theodore Neff, 97, on February 1, 2017, at University Retirement Community in Davis, Calif. Ted was born on July 11,…
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