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Fiction


November 2023

Poetry

Schrödinger’s Seraphim

What happens behind the closed temple doors when no human is present? / Is there a silence, a waiting, a… Vija Merrill
Poetry

Vital Conversations

There is no silence. / God’s voice is everywhere— / In the vital conversation Gloria Heffernan
Forum

Forum, November 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Witness

How We Gave Away Hundreds of Banned Books in Florida

One small Florida worship group's act of defiance against the state's new book banning laws. Kathy Hersh
Reflection

Lessons in Giving and Receiving

How do we create a community where we all give the gifts we have, as we are able, and know… Mary Ann Downey
November 2023 Books

We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel AND Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the “Collective Jew”

By Eric Alterman. Basic Books, 2022. 512 pages. $35/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. By Antony Lerman. Pluto Press, 2022. 336 pages. $23.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2023 Books

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

By Danya Ruttenberg. Beacon Press, 2022. 256 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $18/paperback; $13.99/eBook. In On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2023 Books

Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World

By Jacob L. Goodson, Brad Elliott Stone, and Philip Rudolph Kuehnert. Cascade Books, 2022. 180 pages. $40/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook.…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2023 Books

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 224 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Through my reading of Indigenous writers, such as…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

November 2023 Books

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By Nicole Eustace. Liveright, 2021. 464 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $20/paperback or eBook. In the Iroquois Book of the Great Law, the…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

November 2023 Books

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778

By Norman E. Donoghue II. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $44.95/hardcover; $35.99/eBook. Societal pressures caused by war…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

November 2023 Books

King: A Life

By Jonathan Eig. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 688 pages. $35/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. This magnificent new biography of Martin Luther King…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

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