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Love My Enemies? Surely You Jest

By Bob Anderson on November 1, 2019

Practicing warm‐heartedness with those on the other side of political divides.

Bob Anderson lives in Newtown, Pa.

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Top Ten Quaker Bestsellers 2019

By Staff on November 1, 2019

From the 2019 FGC Gathering at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Source: QuakerBooks of FGC

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On the Spirituality of Lightheartedness

By Reviewed by J. Brent Bill on November 1, 2019

By Helen Steere Horn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 456), 2019. 26 pages. $7/pamphlet.

J. Brent Bill, a member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. His newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love is slated for release this month.

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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe

By Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen on November 1, 2019

By Richard Rohr. Convergent Books, 2019. 272 pages. $26/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Ken Jacobsen and his wife, Katharine, until her death in 2017, served as teachers and co-directors in Quaker communities such as Olney Friends School and Pendle Hill. Ken has taught theology and healing at Chicago Theological Seminary and has led retreats on Jesus’s teachings at Friends Center in Barnesville, Ohio. He keeps his home in Wisconsin as a poustinia, a retreat house for spiritual travelers.

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The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on November 1, 2019

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.

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What Is Justice?: A Personal Exploration

By Reviewed by Tom Paxson on November 1, 2019

By Bill Denham. Fernwood Press, 2019. 70 pages. $14/paperback.

Tom Paxson, a retired philosophy professor, is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa.

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Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change

By Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt on October 1, 2019

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.

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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on September 1, 2019

By John Shelby Spong. HarperOne, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Many Friends acknowledge the Christian roots of the Religious […]

Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books

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Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision

By Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen on September 1, 2019

By John Dominic Crossan and Sarah Sexton Crossan. HarperOne, 2018. 224 pages. $39.99/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. John Dominic Crossan, author of numerous […]

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