April 2024

April 2024 Books

Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration

By Jocelyn Simonson. The New Press, 2023. 256 pages. $27.99/hardcover or eBook. Radical Acts of Justice is both a hopeful…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

April 2024 Books

The Spirituality of Dreaming: Unlocking the Wisdom of Our Sleeping Selves

By Kelly Bulkeley. Broadleaf Books, 2023. 244 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $26.99/eBook. Most of us human beings spend about a third of…

Reviewed by Tom Head

April 2024 Books

The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education

Edited by Jeffrey Bilbro, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and David Henreckson. Plough Publishing House, 2023. 224 pages. $59.95/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

April 2024 Books

Altar to an Erupting Sun

By Chuck Collins. Green Writers Press, 2023. 330 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. If you are about my age—mid-70s—this book will possibly…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

April 2024 Books

Babylon

By Jeffrey L. Johnson. Fernwood Press, 2023. 78 pages. $16/paperback. Jeffrey Johnson’s book of poems Babylon takes its reader on…

Reviewed by James W. Hood

April 2024 Books

IN BRIEF: Seeking the Light: A Quaker Journey for Quakers and Non-Quakers

By Linda Seger. Self-published, 2023. 329 pages. $12.99/paperback; $2.99/eBook. Writing in a conversational style, Linda Seger introduces Quakerism to non-Quakers…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

April 2024 Books

IN BRIEF: Together We Decide: An Essential Guide for Making Good Group Decisions

By Craig Freshley. Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2022. 304 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. The author attended a military high school where…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

Mary Frances Anderson

Anderson—Mary Frances Anderson, 79, on June 3, 2023, at John Muir Health Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif. Mary was…

Paul Manuel Aviles Baker

Baker—Paul Manuel Aviles Baker, 68, on December 14, 2023, after a brief medical emergency, in the presence of his husband,…

Sandra Marissa Caldeira

Caldeira—Sandra Marissa Caldeira, 75, on July 29, 2023, following a stroke and massive heart attack, in Oakland, Calif. Marissa was…

Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust

Arch Street Meeting House (ASMH), an 1804 Quaker meetinghouse in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa., saw a significant…

Philip Barrett Furnas

Furnas—Philip Barrett Furnas, 85, on August 29, 2023, after a long illness, in Baltimore, Md. Phil was born on November…
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