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Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

By Mark Russ. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2022. 104 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. An interview with book author Mark Russ…

Reviewed by William Shetter

Itzel and the Ocelot

By Rachel Katstaller. Kids Can Press, 2022. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7. To craft this culturally rich…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

The Inconvenient Gospel: A Southern Prophet Tackles War, Wealth, Race, and Religion

By Clarence Jordan, edited by Frederick L. Downing. Plough Publishing House, 2022. 152 pages. $12/paperback; $10/eBook. This is a very…

Reviewed by William Shetter

Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote

By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charly Palmer. Calkins Creek, 2022. 64 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 9–12. Etched…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest: From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again

By Ruth Haley Barton. InterVarsity Press, 2022. 264 pages. $25/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. The story is familiar to all of us. Following…

Reviewed by William Shetter

God’s Part in Our Art: Making Friends with the Creative Spirit

By Linda Seger. Red Typewriter Press, 2021. 232 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Artistic creation has a well-established and hardly controversial…

Reviewed by William Shetter

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee. One World, 2021. 448 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In the United States, one of the most vital…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

By Robert H. Mayer. NewSouth Books, 2021. 224 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. Unsung adolescent heroes of the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

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Flashes of Grace: 33 Encounters with God

By Patrick Henry. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021. 318 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. The title is phrased in such…

Reviewed by William Shetter