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Books February 2013

Reviewed this month: Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East. By Rabbi Michael Lerner. Reviewed by…

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The Conflict over Abolition Activism: What Can We Learn from It?

In 2002, Westbury (N.Y.) Meeting celebrated 300 years of meetinghouses on its site. As coordinator of the celebration, part of…

Gretchen Haynes

Marjorie Elkinton James Leavitt

Leavitt—Marjorie Elkinton James Leavitt, 95, on January 3, 2020, peacefully, at home in Santa Cruz, Calif. Marge was born on…

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The Road We Walked

A Philadelphia Quaker meeting’s journey to reparations.

Gabbreell James

My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth

By Ann Turner, illustrated by James Ransome. HarperCollins, 2015. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8 and up. It is…

Reviewed by Alison James

A Word from the Lost: Remarks on James Nayler’s Love to the Lost and a Hand Held Forth to the Helpless to Lead Out of the Dark

By David Lewis. Inner Light Books, 2019. 276 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback; $12.50/eBook.

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Be Cool, Not Hot

To better understand an adult’s behavior, psychologists often investigate the individual’s childhood experience. Events that take place in the early…

Dean Sherwin

Milestones February 2013

Births Heiland—Laura Kelley Heiland was born to Julie Heiland and Martin Kelley on January 22, 2012, at 8:15 p.m, in Elmer,…

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The Gospels: A New Translation

By Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 2021. 416 pages. $28/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Why would you want to read the Gospels? And if…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Books May 2013: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Reviewed books: Bad Apple: A Tale of Friendship, by Edward Hemingway; Good People Everywhere, by Lynea Gillen, illustrated by Kristina Swarner; Because Amelia Smiles, by David Ezra Stein; Wanakjiji: The Villagers, by Michael Resman, translated by Fred Senelwa and illustrated by Cyrus Ngatia Gathigo; The Sandal Artist, by Kathleen T. Pelley; The Forgiveness Garden, by Lauren Thompson; The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition, by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon; The Lion Bible in its Time, by Lois Rock, illustrated by Steve Noon; Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca, by Deborah Kogan Ray; Faith: Five Religions and What They Share, by Richard and Michele Strecel; Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, by Kerrie Logan Hollihan; One for the Murphys, by Lynda Mullaly Hung.

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