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February 2017 Books

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in…

Reviewed by Bill Chapman

October 2015 Books

Thomas Merton, Peacemaker: Meditations on Merton, Peacemaking, and the Spiritual Life

By John Dear. Orbis Books, 2015. 206 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. The centenary year of Thomas Merton’s birth in 1915 is…

Reviewed by William Shetter

Thomas Kelly

Thomas Kelly is the first of four activist Friends that I intend to write about in this column over the…

Brian Drayton

Features

A Perilous Neglect

Waiting for the Watchman and holding things in God.

Alastair McIntosh

Features

A Parallel Universe

Finding the place where deep hunger can be met by deep joy.

Jennifer Kavanagh

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Giving from a Peaceful Place

Finding a balance in our work.

Lisa Smith

A Great People To Be Gathered: The View From Pendle Hill

In the olden days, when I was here, Quakers did not applaud at lectures. Remember those days? I was asked…

Parker J. Palmer

Quaker Book Reviews

Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year

Edited by Anne Snyder and Susannah Black. Plough Publishing House, 2022. 400 pages. $35/hardcover; $20/eBook. We live in a disorderly,…

Reviewed by Philip Favero

Quaker Book Reviews

Presence and Process: A Path Toward Transformative Faith and Inclusive Community

By Daniel P. Coleman. Barclay Press, 2017. 232 pages. $20/paperback; $6.99/eBook. At the end of his remarkable book, Daniel Coleman…

Reviewed by Peter West Nutting

Memorable Meetings

Thomas Merton