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October 2021
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Witness
Taking on Mass Incarceration in Philadelphia
Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting breathes new life into the meeting’s corporate commitment to respond to the great evil of mass…
Pamela Haines
October 2021 Books
A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
Edited by Sarah Bessey. Convergent Books, 2021. 176 pages. $20/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. A reader who opens this book expecting yet another…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
By Brian D. McLaren. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2021. 256 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Although this book is clearly written for disillusioned…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
Leap to Wholeness: How the World Is Programmed to Help Us Grow, Heal, and Adapt
By Sky Nelson-Isaacs. North Atlantic Books, 2021. 328 pages. $19.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. How do our choices lead us toward, or away…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
Struggling with (Non)violence
By Julie Marie Todd. In Media Res, 2020. 280 pages. $18.98/paperback. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know By Erica…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
By Peniel E. Joseph. Basic Books, 2020. 384 pages. $30/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Living through a historic era is no guarantee…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
By Todd Miller. City Lights Books, 2021. 180 pages. $14.95/paperback or eBook. Todd Miller has spent much of his adult…
Alla Podolsky
October 2021 Books
Intimations: Six Essays
By Zadie Smith. Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $10.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie…
Alla Podolsky
Holly Sue Anderson
Anderson—Holly Sue Anderson, 68, on January 14, 2021, after a brief hospitalization for cardiopulmonary complications, in Santa Monica, Calif. Holly…
Gretchen (Gay) Smart Berger
Berger—Gretchen (Gay) Smart Berger, 91, on January 6, 2021, with her children by her side, at Kendal on Hudson, a…
Alice Grace Chalip
Chalip—Alice Grace Chalip, 90, on October 15, 2020, in Alameda, Calif. Alice was born on June 30, 1930, to Morris…
John Kevin Gaffney
Gaffney—John Kevin Gaffney, 70, on April 12, 2020, at home in Providence, R.I. John was born on May 15, 1949,…
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