Race and Antiracism

January 2021

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Forum, January 2021

Surveying the flat lands Joe McHugh’s recent article on senior spirituality (“East of Denver,” FJ Dec. 2020) was inspiring and… Staff
Witness

Watering Our Quaker Roots

Arch Street Meeting awards a grant to St. James School, an independent Episcopal milld-school in Philadelphia. Paul Laskow
January 2021 Books

A Call to Friends: Faithful Living in Desperate Times

By Marty Grundy. Inner Light Books, 2020. 57 pages. $25/hardcover; $15/paperback; $10/eBook. A Call to Friends begins with a look…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

January 2021 Books

A Culture of Faithfulness

By Marcelle Martin. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 462), 2020. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. As do Quakers all over the world, we…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

January 2021 Books

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

By Jack Jenkins. HarperOne, 2020. 352 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. In the publication of books on the religious right, there is…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

January 2021 Books

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. AK Press, 2020. 260 pages. $18/paperback; $17.99/eBook. Beyond Survival is a collection…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

January 2021 Books

Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World

By Walter Brueggemann. Westminster John Knox Press, 2020. 128 pages. $15/paperback; $12/eBook. The title Materiality as Resistance points toward the…

Reviewed by Tom Paxson

January 2021 Books

The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul

By Belden C. Lane. Oxford University Press, 2019. 344 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. We’re surrounded by a world that talks, but…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

January 2021 Books

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature

By Sue Stuart-Smith. Scribner, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. I stepped into this book ready to be supported in my…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Elaine Jeanette Amoruso

Amoruso—Elaine Jeanette Amoruso, 93, on February 6, 2019, in Berkeley, Calif. Elaine was born on January 26, 1926, in Mount…

M. Reid Bush

Bush—M. Reid Bush, 78, on May 13, 2020, peacefully at home in Honey Brook, Pa. Reid was born on August…

Catherine Berry Feucht

Feucht—Catherine Berry Feucht, 88, on June 18, 2020, of cancer, peacefully at home in Southbury, Conn., surrounded by her family.…
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