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Race, Systemic Violence, and Retrospective Justice: An African American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives

By Harold D. Weaver Jr. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 465), 2020. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet; $7/eBook. The title of Harold Weaver’s…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

By Michele Harper. Riverhead Books, 2020. 304 pages. $27/hardcover; $16/paperback (available in July); $13.99/eBook. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Palestine and Israel: A Personal Encounter

By Max L. Carter. Barclay Press, 2020. 150 pages. $16/paperback. There are no easy answers when it comes to alleviating…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

By Pema Chödrön. Shambhala Publications, 2019. 192 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $16.95/paperback (available in October); $15.99/eBook. Pema Chödrön’s Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 192 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $15.95/paperback (available in September). A year before his…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

The Women’s Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible throughout the Year

By Ashley M. Wilcox. Westminster John Knox Press, 2021. 326 pages. $45/paperback; $32/eBook. Ashley Wilcox is a Quaker and a…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By Kaitlin B. Curtice. Brazos Press, 2020. 208 pages. $35.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback or eBook. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God is…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good

By Sr. Simone Campbell. Orbis Books, 2020. 160 pages. $16/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Sister Simone Campbell’s Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation,…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity

The diversity within Quakerism and Christianity can reveal additional windows into the Divine.

Lauren Brownlee

A Loving Quaker Journey to BDS

A Friend struggles to find a position on the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement.

Lauren Brownlee