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Books November 2013

Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the 21st Century (George Lakey); Sparkling Still: A Quaker Curriculum for First Day School or Home Use for Children 3-8 (Sparkling Still Working Group of FGC); The Last Runaway (Tracy Chevalier); The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery (Rex Ambler); The Dance Between Hope & Fear (John Calvi); Transition in Healing: A Journey (Normal Lee); Abuse Survivors: Self-Guided Retreat, A Memoir of Healing (Brutz); The Immanence Bible in Verse (John Michael Wine); Living in the Kingdom of God (John Andrew Gallery); The Gospel of Thomas: Wisdom of the Twin (Lynn C. Bauman); The Essence of George Fox's Journal (ed. by Hunter Lewis); Full Planet, Empty Plats: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (Lester R Brown); The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation (Jay Harman); Dear White America: Letters to a New Minority (Tim Wise); She Walked for All of Us: One Woman's 1971 Protest Against an Illegal War (Louse Bruyn).

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Books March 2013

Books Reviewed: "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco. "Dorothee Soelle: Mystic and Rebel" by Renate Wind. "The Trial of Fallen Angels: a Novel" by James Kimmel, Jr. "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life" by Richard Rohr. "Love Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived" by Rob Bell. "The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide for Those who Want to Go Deeper" edited by David Vanderveen. "Pushing at the Frontiers of Change: A Memoir of Quaker Involvement with Homosexuality" by David Blamires "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict" by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. "The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the 'People’s Historian'" by Howard Zinn.

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Sacred Responsibility

Facing Child Abuse as a Friends Community.

Kody Gabriel Hersh

Transfigurations—Transgressing Gender in the Bible

Written and performed by Peterson Toscano; directed by Samuel Neff. Barclay Press, 2017. 103 minutes. $20/DVD; $14.99/download; $2.99/online rental. I…

Reviewed by Kody Gabriel Hersh

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Our Top Five Articles for 2023

Let's look at this year's most widely read features.

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