2021

August 2021 Books

Dancing in God’s Earthquake: The Coming Transformation of Religion

By Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow. Orbis Books, 2020. 232 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. In the advance praise inside the front cover…

Reviewed by William Shetter

August 2021 Books

Data Action: Using Data for Public Good

By Sarah Williams. MIT Press, 2020. 312 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. The intended focus of Data Action is described on the…

Reviewed by Arthur David Olson and J.E. McNeil

August 2021 Books

Aging with Agency: Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare

By Sandi Peters. North Atlantic Books, 2020. 304 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Aging with Agency is a valuable field guide for…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

August 2021 Books

Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle Catholic to Cyborg Christian

By Ilia Delio. Orbis Books, 2019. 240 pages. $24/paperback; $19.50/eBook. Over the last 20 years, Ilia Delio has written books…

Reviewed by Rob Pierson

Nagendran “Gulen” Gulendran

Gulendran—Nagendran “Gulen” Gulendran, 85, on January 6, 2021, in his sleep at home in Philadelphia, Pa. Gulen was born on…

Martha Perry Gwyn

Gwyn—Martha Perry Gwyn, 96, on September 5, 2020, following a short battle with COVID-19 at the Carol Woods Retirement Home…

Edwin Dudley Hale

Hale—Edwin Dudley Hale, 86, January 6, 2020, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, in Mountain View, Calif. Ed was born…

Margine (Mardi) Copeland McVey Holland

Holland—Margine (Mardi) Copeland McVey Holland, peacefully on Sept. 17, 2020. Mardi was born to H.B. and Margine McVey on June…

Blaine William Nelson

Nelson—Blaine William Nelson, 77, on Sept. 28, 2020, from pancreatic cancer, at home in El Paso, Tex. Nancy Neptune Nelson,…

Elizabeth R.S. Richards

Richards—Elizabeth R.S. Richards, 98, on June 18, 2020, while residing in Friendship Village Tempe, Tempe, Ariz. Elizabeth was born on…

Virginia Joyce Schurman

Schurman—Virginia Joyce Schurman, 79, on September 26, 2020, at Broadmead, a Quaker-guided continuing care community in Cockeysville, Md. Virginia was…

Anne Thomas (Walker)

Thomas—Anne Thomas (Walker), 76, on September 4, 2020, at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia,…
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