April 2021

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Witness

Demining for Peace

Woodstown (N.J.) Meeting and Birmingham Meeting in West Chester, Pa. mount efforts to aid the detection and neutralization of landmines. Carleton Crispin and Jack Mahon
April 2021 Books

Indiana Trainwreck (The Separation Generation, Volume 1): Divisions in Indiana Quaker Communities Over Inclusion of Homosexuals, Church Authority, Christ, and the Bible

By Stephen W. Angell and Chuck Fager. Quaker Theology, 2020. 267 pages. $13.95/paperback; $3.99/eBook. Indiana Trainwreck (The Separation Generation, Volume…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

April 2021 Books

Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys

By Fiona Gardner. James Backhouse Lecture, 2020. 52 pages. $14/paperback; $8.99e/Book. As Quakers, we seek to be in union with…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

April 2021 Books

Who Stole My Bible?: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny and Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism

[Who Stole My Bible?] By Jennifer Butler. Faith in Public Life, 2020. 178 pages. $15.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. [Prophetic Healing] By Bruce…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

April 2021 Books

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By Layla F. Saad. Sourcebooks, 2020. 256 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy asks those of us…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

April 2021 Books

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

By Christine Montross. Penguin Press, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in July); $14.99/eBook. Why does the United States have…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

April 2021 Books

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

Edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim. OpenBook Publishers, 2020. 286 pages. $40.95/hardcover; $27.95/paperback; $7.33/eBook; free PDF…

Reviewed by Philip Favero

April 2021 Books

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

By Michele Harper. Riverhead Books, 2020. 304 pages. $27/hardcover; $16/paperback (available in July); $13.99/eBook. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Viewpoint

Finding the Way to Walk

Maybe it’s not as important which path you walk, as the way in which you walk it. John Andrew Gallery

William Maxfield Alexander

Alexander—William Maxfield Alexander, 94, on June 27, 2020, peacefully at the home of his daughter, Loree Monroe, in Chico, Calif.…

David Lewis Hewitt

Hewitt—David Lewis Hewitt, 97, on August 25, 2020, peacefully in his sleep at Kendal at Longwood, a continuing care retirement…

Carol Klingbeil Lamm

Lamm—Carol Klingbeil Lamm, 70, on October 27, 2020, of cancer, at home in Berea, Ky. Her husband of 49 years,…
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