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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…
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Lauren Brownlee
April 2021 Books
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
February 2021 Books
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
Quaker Book Reviews
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
August 2020 Books
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
November 2022 Book Reviews
Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace
By Valerie Brown. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 275 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. I’ve always loved the sentiment behind the saying “People may…
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Lauren Brownlee
June/July 2022 Books
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
February 2022 Books
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…
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Lauren Brownlee
November 2021 Books
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,…
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Lauren Brownlee
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The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity
The diversity within Quakerism and Christianity can reveal additional windows into the Divine.
Lauren Brownlee
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