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Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant

By Emily Provance. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 461), 2020. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Picture an equilateral triangle—let’s call it a “covenant…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters

By Mark Nepo. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2020. 288 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. In developing his soul, philosopher and poet Mark Nepo…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Epiphanies: Poems of Liberation, Exile, and Confinement

By Harvey Gillman. Self-published, 2021. 104 pages. $9.59/paperback (available in the United States on worldofbooks.com/en-us). Harvey Gillman, a linguist and…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2021. 160 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh is a…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Object Essays

By Anita Bushell. Self-published, 2023. 40 pages. $18/paperback. Object Essays by Anita Bushell is a collection of ten brief personal…

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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…

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Metaphors of Meaning

By Linda Wilson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #437, 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. The spiritual life is a journey. That metaphorical statement…

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Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Revised and Expanded Edition)

By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 352 pages. $22/paperback; $16.99/eBook. The back cover of Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual…

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Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith

By Karen Wright Marsh. IVP Books, 2017. 224 pages. $20/hardcover; $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed…

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An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life

By Cho-Nyon Kim. James Backhouse Lectures, 2018. 38 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The slender, intriguing pamphlet An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar