August 2024

August 2024

August 2024 Books

A Simple Faith in a Complicated World: One Quaker’s Journey through Doubt to Faith

By Kate McNally. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 72 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The subtitle of this book points to…

Reviewed by Diana Sacerio

August 2024 Books

Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors

By Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw. Broadleaf Books, 2024. 244 pages. $19.99/paperback; $17.99/eBook. It is a provocative title…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

August 2024 Books

Pluralism in Practice: Case Studies of Leadership in a Religiously Diverse America

By Elinor J. Pierce. Orbis Books, 2023. 264 pages. $34/paperback; $27.50/eBook. As the United States grows increasingly diverse, it is…

Reviewed by Mark Jolly-Van Bodegraven

August 2024 Books

Forming a Global Community

By Joseph de Rivera. Vernon Press, 2022. 256 pages. $55/hardcover; $40/paperback or eBook. Forming a Global Community was both a…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

August 2024 Books

unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis

By Jessica Jacobs. Four Way Books, 2024. 210 pages. $17.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Jessica Jacobs was featured in the August 2024 episode…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Wayfaring: A Guide to Guidance

By Larry Lynn Southard. Self-published, 2023. 228 pages. £25 (about $32)/hardcover. In this thought-provoking book, Irish Friend Larry Lynn Southard…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Reporting for Duty: My Urgency for Justice and Peace

By Andrew Mills. Resource Publications, 2022. 230 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook. I’m very grateful to Friend Andrew Mills for…

Reviewed by Alice Gitchell

August 2024 Books

In Brief: Roses in the Night: Mayan Sisters Confront CIA-Backed Terror

By Malcolm Bell. Self-published, 2023. 270 pages. $19.99/paperback; $8.99/eBook. This fact-based novel traces the story of Brenda, a young Mayan…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

Joan Marie Blasko

Blasko—Joan Marie Blasko, 87, on April 22, 2024, at Foxdale Village, a Quaker retirement community in State College, Pa. Joan…

Caroline Clarice Estes

Estes—Caroline Clarice Estes, 94, on July 13, 2022, in hospice care at Alpha Farm, an intentional community rooted in a…

Robin Francis Harper

Harper—Robin Francis Harper, 94, on December 4, 2023, at Crosslands, a Quaker lifecare community in Kennett Square, Pa., where he…

Lonnie Valentine

Valentine—Lonnie Valentine, 74, on June 19, 2023, during treatment for primary cerebral lymphoma in Richmond, Ind. Lonnie earned a bachelor’s…
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