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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

”The ‘Peace for Earth’ Walk

After considerable prayer and discernment we, Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox, are about to embark on a spiritual journey that…

Ruah Swennerfelt

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

By Ranae Lenor Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. Traveling on the water taught me…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Ecology of Quaker Meeting

By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

By Naomi Klein. Simon & Schuster, 2019. 320 pages. $27/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in September); $12.99/eBook. I’ve read several of Naomi…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

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Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability (Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 6)

Edited by Cherice Bock and Stephen Potthoff. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2019. 478 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. This comprehensive history…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul

By Belden C. Lane. Oxford University Press, 2019. 344 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. We’re surrounded by a world that talks, but…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

By Michael E. Mann. PublicAffairs, 2021. 368 pages. $29/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. All we require are policies to incentivize the needed shift.…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

The Depth of Our Belonging: Mysticism, Physics, and Healing

By Mary Conrow Coelho. Producciones de la Hamaca, 2021. 94 pages. $25/paperback; $15/eBook. I was first introduced to the writings…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt