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That of Dog

Mia sat cross-legged on the floor in front of her laptop. She inhaled and opened her eyes. Jacqueline Houtman
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The Silent Confirmation of a Notable Thing

The starling was a ball of broken feathers rolled into an overflowing gutter. Eileen Gunnell Lee
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Future Visions

Javier settled into silence, hoping that on this First Day, he would not become unmoored in time and space. Trace Yulie
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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

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