2021

Reflection

Seeing the Inner Light at Ananda Village

Bless a temple? How do I do that? Do we even do blessings? Donald W. McCormick
November 2021 Books

Epiphanies: Poems of Liberation, Exile, and Confinement

By Harvey Gillman. Self-published, 2021. 104 pages. $9.59/paperback (available in the United States on worldofbooks.com/en-us). Harvey Gillman, a linguist and…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

November 2021 Books

The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis

Edited by Philip Clayton, Kelli M. Archie, Jonah Sachs, and Evan Steiner. Cascade Books, 2021. 298 pages. $35/hardcover; $27/paperback or…

Reviewed by Philip Favero

November 2021 Books

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By Michael E. Mann. PublicAffairs, 2021. 368 pages. $29/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. All we require are policies to incentivize the needed shift.…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2021 Books

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth

By Chris Smaje. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 320 pages. $22.50/paperback or eBook. It is written in Proverbs: “Where there is…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2021 Books

Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances

By Catherine Keller. Orbis Books, 2021. 176 pages. $26/paperback; $21.50/eBook. Catherine Keller has been absorbed by planetary crisis since publishing…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

November 2021 Books

Doing Theology in an Evolutionary Way

By Diarmuid O’Murchu. Orbis Books, 2021. 232 pages. $24/paperback; $19.50/eBook. A Church that seeks to follow where the Spirit leads…

Reviewed by Rob Pierson

November 2021 Books

Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good

By Sr. Simone Campbell. Orbis Books, 2020. 160 pages. $16/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Sister Simone Campbell’s Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation,…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2021 Books

Persuade, Don’t Preach: Restoring Civility Across the Political Divide

By Karen Tibbals. Ethical Frames LLC, 2020. 199 pages. $12.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Persuade, Don’t Preach offers a fresh look at the…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

November 2021 Books

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics and Beyond the Two-State Solution

By Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. The New Press, 2021. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover or eBook. By Jonathan Kuttab. Nonviolence…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2021 Books

Dispatches from the Race War

By Tim Wise. City Lights Books, 2020. 352 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. I recently read a letter to the editor…

Reviewed by Patience Schenck

November 2021 Books

Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830

Edited by Robynne Rogers Healey. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. 288 pages. $89.95/hardcover; $39.99/eBook. This is the third volume…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

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