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Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader

Edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 400 pages. $30/paperback. I have of…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something from Everything

By Ashley Bryan, photographs edited by Rich Entel. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. 80 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Anne Nydam

What Is Experiment with Light? (Books in Brief)

By Rex Ambler. The Experiment with Light Network, 2014. 28 pages. £3/pamphlet. Readers may note that the price of this pamphlet…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Fit for Freedom: A Conversation with the Co- Authors

Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans and the Myth of Racial Justice By Donna McDaniel and Vanessa…

Cathy Wald

Comments on the review of When the Rain Returns

I was deeply saddened by Stanley Zarowin’s review of When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and…

Deborah J. Garner

In Brief: My Life Is a Quilt: A Book of Quaker Messages

By Wendy Clarissa Geiger. Southeastern Yearly Meeting Publishing, 2020. 133 pages. $15/paperback. This little book is square in shape, which…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Paths of Faith in the Landscape of Science: Three Quakers Check Their Compass (Books in Brief)

By George M. Strunz, Michael R. Miller, and Keith Helmuth. Chapel Street Editions, 2014. 121 pages. $15/paperback. In this collection…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Bluffing Is Murder (Books in Brief)

By Tace Baker. Barking Rain Press, 2014. 177 pages. $12.95/paperback; $5.95/eBook. Sleuth Lauren Rousseau is back in this sequel to…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Inner Light Books joins Barclay Press

The operations of Quaker publishing house Inner Light Books will be carried on by Barclay Press following the retirement of…

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The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism: An Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

By Carl McColman. Broadleaf Books, 2023. 402 pages. $25.99/paperback; $23.99/eBook. Although there is no succinct explication of mysticism, Carl McColman…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy