Neurodiversity

March 2025

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Praying with Crow

I am often left / empty of words, / language is of little use. Derek Polzer
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Letters from our readers. Staff
March 2025 Books

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

By Julia Watts Belser. Beacon Press, 2023. 288 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $18.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Full of personal stories and rich theological reflection,…

Reviewed by Greg Woods

March 2025 Books

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World AND Loving Corrections

By Prentis Hemphill. Random House, 2024. 256 pages. $29/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Loving Corrections By adrienne maree brown. AK Press, 2024. 200…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

March 2025 Books

The Light That Is Given: Prophetic Quaker Faith

By Patricia Dallmann. Resource Publications (an imprint of Wipf and Stock), 2024. 172 pages. $37/hardcover; $22/paperback or eBook. Patricia Dallmann…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

March 2025 Books

This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse

By Lydia Wylie-Kellermann. Broadleaf Books, 2024. 173 pages. $18.99/paperback; $17.99/eBook. Not too long after my first child (now five years…

Reviewed by Janaki Spickard Keeler

March 2025 Books

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

By William J. Barber II. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024. 288 pages. $22.99/hardcover; $22.09/eBook. The issue of white poverty is a…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Film Review

Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty

Directed by Leo Eaton and John Paulson; produced by Thomas D. Lehrman, Leo Eaton, and John Paulson. Virgil Films, 2024.…

Reviewed by Hope Ascher

March 2025 Books

In Brief: Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women

By Hannah Rose Thomas. Plough Publishing House, 2024. 136 pages. $49.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. This full-color book contains Hannah Rose Thomas’s portraits…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

Hayes Osteen Ratledge

Ratledge—Hayes Osteen Ratledge, 93, on December 6, 2022, peacefully, following a brief hospitalization in Greensboro, N.C. Hayes was born on…

Nancy Lee McGuire Ratledge

Ratledge—Nancy Lee McGuire Ratledge, 94, on April 22, 2023, in Greensboro, N.C. Nancy was born on March 22, 1929, to…

William R. Rogers

Rogers—William R. Rogers, 90, on July 15, 2022, at Well-Spring Retirement Community in Greensboro, N.C. Bill was born on June…
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