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Quakers and Mental Healthcare

Our historical witness and snapshots of present practices.

Carl Blumenthal

Interview with Timothy McMahan King, author of Addiction Nation

What the opioid crisis reveals about us.

Carl Blumenthal

Forum, April 2020

Letters from our readers.

Staff

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By Anne Lamott. Riverhead Books, 2017. 176 pages. $20/hardcover; $22/paperback; $10.99/eBook. “I’m not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos

Edited by Angela Dews. Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. 288 pages. $21.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Conscience or consciousness? While the demands of conscience and…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education

Edited by Jeffrey Bilbro, Jessica Hooten Wilson, and David Henreckson. Plough Publishing House, 2023. 224 pages. $59.95/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Enlarging Our Circle of Love

By Margaret Fisher. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 440), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. A physician, organic gardener, and member of Baltimore…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Race & Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation

By David P. Leong, IVP Books, 2017. 208 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. I couldn’t put down David Leong’s guide because it…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

By Elizabeth Ford. Regan Arts, 2017. 247 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. How many of us could survive one day in…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey

By Michael Gellert. Prometheus Books, 2018. 286 pages. $26/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. As a Conservative Jew—the muddled middle between Reform and Orthodox—I…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal