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Interview with Quaker Singer Paulette Meier

Paulette Meier is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, part of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting. She didn’t…

Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: A Quaker’s View of Gendlin’s Philosophy

By Harbert Rice. Embudo Valley Press, 2020. 126 pages. $14.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Eugene Gendlin was a twentieth-century philosopher whose work and…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Story of War and Conscience

By Van Temple. Self-published, 2020. 376 pages. $16.99/paperback; $1.99/eBook. Anderson Flowers Temple was a real person and a Confederate soldier…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: In the Light of Silence

By Linda Carrillo. Resource Publications, 2020. 264 pages. $47/hardcover; $27/paperback or eBook. Writing a novel is one of the trickiest…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Choosing Life: My Father’s Journey in Film from Hollywood to Hiroshima

By Leslie A. Sussan. Self-published, 2020. 350 pages. $16.99/paperback; $4.99/eBook. This is a book with a complicated origin. For the…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Born East-West: Stories of a Quaker Hippie Jesus Freak

By Sarah McClelland McMullen. Self-published, 2020. 296 pages. $14.99/paperback; $6.99/eBook. I have a fondness for memoirs, and for ones that…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

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

April 2015 Books

Reflections of a Quaker: A Blank Slate Theology (Books in Brief)

By Warren L. Treuer. 338 pages. Self-published, 2014. $24.99/paperback. Sometimes those with long experience give the gift of sharing insights…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

June/July 2021 Books

In Brief: Facilitating Group Learning: Strategies for Success with Diverse Learners (Second Edition)

By George Lakey. PM Press, 2020. 320 pages. $20/paperback; $8.95/eBook. Teaching is a space of perennial interest, and in this…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

April 2015 Books

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