2022

April 2022 Books

To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hope

By Jennifer Bailey. Chalice Press, 2021. 128 pages. $16.99/hardcover or eBook. Reverend Jennifer Bailey is the founder and executive director…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

April 2022 Books

My Broken Language: A Memoir

By Quiara Alegría Hudes. One World, 2021. 336 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; 13.99/eBook. Here’s what I wrote in “Worship for a…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

April 2022 Books

Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do—And Why We Need to Love Them More

By Vicki Hird. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021. 224 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. This is an enjoyable and useful book. Hird…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

April 2022 Books

In Brief: Ways to Kiss the Earth: Quaker Artists Explore Sustainability

Edited by Linda Murgatroyd. Quaker Arts Network, 2020. 48 pages. £10/paperback. Ways to Kiss the Earth presents art works in…

Reviewed by John Bond

April 2022 Books

In Brief: The Soulful Life: Soulfulness from Birth to Death

By Ron McDonald. RPM Press, 2021. 171 pages. $11.95/paperback; $8.99/eBook. Soul is a word shrouded in mystery. Soul cannot be…

Reviewed by John Bond

In Brief: Quiet Healer: From Jew, to Quaker, to Healer—A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Wisdom

By Elyce Valiquette. Self-published, 2021. 538 pages. $17.99/paperback; $6.98/eBook. Quiet Healer is the story of one woman’s extraordinary journey from…
April 2022 Books

In Brief: Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; The Letters of Emma Botham Alderson

Edited by Donald Ingram Ulin. Bucknell University Press, 2020. 548 pages. $160/hardcover or eBook. Writing Home offers readers a firsthand…

Reviewed by John Bond

In Brief: A Just and Noble Cause

By Harriet J. Schley. Self-published, 2021. 132 pages. $13/paperback. This novel is set in New Kent County, Va., during the…
April 2022 Books

In Brief: Alive in This World

By Pamela Haines. Producciones de la Hamaca, 2021. 156 pages. $25/paperback; $12.99/eBook.    This collection of poetry, Alive in This World,…

Reviewed by John Bond

April 2022 Books

In Brief: Walking Each Other Home: Spiritual Companionship for Dementia Caregivers

By Jean M. Denton. Morehouse Publishing, 2021. 176 pages. $16.95/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Dementia changes everything—and not just for the person who…

Reviewed by John Bond

April 2022 Books

In Brief: A New Silence: Spiritual Practices and Formation for the Monk Within

By Beverly Lanzetta. Blue Sapphire Books, 2020. 414 pages. $19/paperback; $9.99/eBook. A New Silence focuses on the inner transformation and…

Reviewed by John Bond

April 2022 Books

In Brief: A Stone House with Windows

By Donn Hutchison. Self-published, 2021. 130 pages. $9/paperback; $5/eBook. This novel by Donn Hutchison is about a girl whose dream…

Reviewed by John Bond

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