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January 2022

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Why Self-esteem Is Overrated and What We Should Nurture Instead

What if instead of nurturing self-esteem, we nurtured a capacity for awe? Kat Griffith
January 2021 Books

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. One World, 2020. 448 pages. $29/hardcover; $18/paperback; $13.99/eBook. This collection of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

January 2021 Books

The Depth of Our Belonging: Mysticism, Physics, and Healing

By Mary Conrow Coelho. Producciones de la Hamaca, 2021. 94 pages. $25/paperback; $15/eBook. I was first introduced to the writings…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

January 2021 Books

The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous–Settler Relations

By Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiyane. Aevo UTP (University of Toronto Press), 2021. 304 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook. The Gatherings:…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

January 2021 Books

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

By Kazu Haga. Parallax Press, 2020. 296 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In our society, violence—physical or mental—is often considered the appropriate…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

January 2021 Books

Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By Michelle Cassandra Johnson. Shambhala Publications, 2021. 168 pages. $17.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. I’d guess there are Friends Journal readers who know…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

January 2021 Books

Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known by God

By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Robert Erlewine. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $10/eBook. Abraham Joshua Heschel was…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

June/July 2021 Books

Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2021. 160 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh is a…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

January 2021 Books

The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations

By Steve Taylor. New World Library, 2020. 136 pages. $18.95/hardcover or eBook. For many of us, sustaining the habit of…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

David Rich Bruner

Bruner—David Rich Bruner, 87, on June 3, 2021, at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, a retirement community in Pomona, Calif. David…

Helen Meredith Ellis Little

Little—Helen Meredith Ellis Little, 86, on May 15, 2020, peacefully, in Tucson, Ariz. Meredith was born on March 10, 1934,…
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