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Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith

By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

By Eileen Flanagan. Seven Stories Press, 2025. 320 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.99/eBook. While addressing our planet’s manifold crises, Quaker activist and…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures

By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. One World, 2024. 496 pages. $34/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. This book gives me hope. It is a series…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Scribner, 2024. 128 pages. $20/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. This long-awaited third book from Robin Wall Kimmerer is a…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis

By Ellen Bernstein. Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024. 160 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. “The first step toward ecological repair,” advises…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

In Brief: Holy Adventure: A Spiritual Memoir

By Lynn Johnson. Meetinghouse, 2023. 58 pages. $17/paperback. This is a lovely little book of some of the author’s life-changing…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

By Jessica Hernandez. North Atlantic Books, 2022. 256 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook.By We often hear the anti-Indigenous statement that the “United…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Altar to an Erupting Sun

By Chuck Collins. Green Writers Press, 2023. 330 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. If you are about my age—mid-70s—this book will possibly…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 224 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Through my reading of Indigenous writers, such as…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Our Better Nature: Hopeful Excursions in Saving Biodiversity

Edited by Curt Lindberg and Eric Hagen. Vermont Alliance for Half-Earth, Northeast Wilderness Trust, Vermont Natural Resources Council, and the…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt