Quakers in Translation

November 2020

Online Features

Imperfect Interpretation in Community

A community commitment to translation requires sharing the work among many people. Heather Gosse
Online Features

Translating Quaker Texts into Russian

Sharing Quakerism through the written word. Natalia Zhuravenkova and Sergei Grushko
Online Features

God in Translation

A change in language brings a Friend closer to the Spirit. Kat Griffith
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Forum, November 2020

Letters from our readers. Staff
November 2020 Books

The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

By Katherine Stewart. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $19.60/eBook. If you want to understand how Christian nationalists helped Donald…

Reviewed by Anthony Manousos

November 2020 Books

Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

By Marilyn McEntyre. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020. 212 pages. $21.99/hardcover or eBook. Words matter. We know this experientially.…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

November 2020 Books

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

By Hope Jahren. Vintage Books, 2020. 224 pages. $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. As readers of Hope Jahren’s previous bestselling book Lab Girl…

Reviewed by Philip Favero

November 2020 Books

Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal

By Ronnie Cummins. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 208 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Grassroots Rising is an invigorating and unapologetic call…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2020 Books

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman. Translated from the Dutch by Erica Moore and Elizabeth Manton. Little, Brown and Company, 2020. 480 pages. $30/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $15.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Bruce Hawkins

November 2020 Books

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

By Valarie Kaur. One World, 2020. 416 pages. $28/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. When I read that Valarie Kaur, a Sikh, was going…

Reviewed by Rich Van Dellen

November 2020 Books

Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us

By Timothy McMahan King. Herald Press, 2019. 272 pages. $30.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook. “Faith is simultaneously a journey and a waiting,…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

November 2020 Books

Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation

By C. Wess Daniels. Barclay Press, 2019. 136 pages. $16/paperback; $3.99/eBook. The Revelation, or Apocalypse, of John of Patmos is…

Reviewed by Rob Pierson

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