2021

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…

Reviewed by William Shetter

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…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

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…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

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…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

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…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

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…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

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…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

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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