February 2022

February 2022 Books

Hope and Witness in Dangerous Times: Lessons from the Quakers on Blending Faith, Daily Life, and Activism

By J. Brent Bill. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2021. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Prolific author and “public Friend” J.…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

February 2022 Books

Messages to Meetings

By Brian Drayton. Inner Light Books, 2021. 115 pages. $30/hardcover; $15/paperback. Then, how important is the “foolishness of preaching,” how…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

February 2022 Books

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement

Edited by Audrea Lim. The New Press, 2021. 352 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. This collection of stories about local citizen…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2022 Books

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

By Ranae Lenor Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. Traveling on the water taught me…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

February 2022 Books

Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 396 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. If we want Jesus’s ethical teachings all…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

February 2022 Books

Flashes of Grace: 33 Encounters with God

By Patrick Henry. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021. 318 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. The title is phrased in such…

Reviewed by William Shetter

February 2022 Books

How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements: Some Historical Examples and a Few Ideas on Reducing the Risk

By Steve Chase. ICNC Press, 2021. 50 pages. $7.99/paperback; $2/eBook; free PDF available at nonviolent-conflict.org. In this booklet published by…

Reviewed by George Lakey

February 2022 Books

Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By Kaitlin B. Curtice. Brazos Press, 2020. 208 pages. $35.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback or eBook. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God is…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

February 2022 Books

Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future

By Pope Francis and Austen Ivereigh. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 160 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback (available in March); $13.99/eBook. As a…

Reviewed by Phila Hoopes

Alice Jeanette Harcourt Baker

Baker—Alice Jeanette Harcourt Baker, 89, on August 4, 2021, in Burlington, Vt. Jeanette was born on March 25, 1932, to…

Pat Campbell

Campbell—Pat Campbell, 72, on April 16, 2021, at her home in Asheville, N.C. Pat was born on April 3, 1949,…

David Marshall Perkins

Perkins—David Marshall Perkins, 86, on September 4, 2020. David was born on May 8, 1934, to Walter Morris Perkins and…
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