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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 496 pages. $32/hardcover; $22/paperback; $15.99/eBook. The AR-15, a rifle…

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Rediscovering Quakerism’s Liberal Religious Roots

Revisiting our spiritual tradition to find common ground in witness and service.

Isaac Barnes May

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

By Jack Jenkins. HarperOne, 2020. 352 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. In the publication of books on the religious right, there is…

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Indiana Trainwreck (The Separation Generation, Volume 1): Divisions in Indiana Quaker Communities Over Inclusion of Homosexuals, Church Authority, Christ, and the Bible

By Stephen W. Angell and Chuck Fager. Quaker Theology, 2020. 267 pages. $13.95/paperback; $3.99/eBook. Indiana Trainwreck (The Separation Generation, Volume…

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Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known by God

By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Robert Erlewine. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $10/eBook. Abraham Joshua Heschel was…

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Charlottesville Quakers and the Ongoing Stand against White Nationalists

Quakers can learn to be braver and more outspoken.

Isaac Barnes May

The Prophetic and the Pragmatic in Politics

We are in good company as we fumble and grope to find our way in politics.

Isaac Barnes May

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost…

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The Following of Jesus: A Reply to The Imitation of Christ

By Leonardo Boff, translated by Dinah Livingstone. Orbis Books, 2019. 144 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook.

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May