By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
David P. Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world and Holocaust history.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation
By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Phil Favero is a member of Agate Passage Meeting in Washington State. He is a Montana native, a former member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, a retired economist, and a longtime supporter of Friends’ work to right our relationship with the natural world.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Unnamed Quaker Creeds (due 12/9/2019)
Unprogrammed Friends will often tell visitors we have no creeds or set practices in worship.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. Contact: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
By Jim Antal. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 242 pages. $56/hardcover; $25/paperback; $23.50/eBook.
Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Middlebury (Vt.) Meeting. She and her husband live in a solar-powered house where they grow most of the vegetables and fruits they consume. They are active with the Transition Town Movement in their town and nationally.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship
By John Todd. North Atlantic Books, 2019. 200 pages. $24.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook.
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Quaker Works October 2019
This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, Quaker Works
Trying to Be Truthful
By Chel Avery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 455), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Reflections on trying to be truthful are particularly […]
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa., part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. A retired professor of philosophy, he has long been interested in philosophical questions regarding truth and knowledge.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2018. 256 pages. $27/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. When I attend my monthly meeting, I am one […]
Lori Patterson lives in Portland, Ore., where she teaches women’s studies at the local college, attends Multnomah Meeting in Portland (where she serves on the Racial Justice Committee), and runs an independent yarn and fiber dyeing business out of her home.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
By Larry Yang. Wisdom Publications, 2017. 280 pages. $17.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. With Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, […]
Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She is the recipient of Pendle Hill’s 2019 Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship and served as writer-in-residence there from March through July 2019. Anna has an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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