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Kaddish for Death and Childbirth קדיש

Her breath rose and fell / spaces between in and out growing wider Carole Fults
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April 2024 Books

Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist

By Ruth Tod. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. I never devoted much time to reading…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

April 2024 Books

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises

By Marjorie Kelly. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023. 256 pages. $22.95/paperback or eBook. Anyone who feels the weight of White supremacy—or sees…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

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… Staff
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