Quaker Universalist Voice

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Reviews

Islam in the Scope of U.S. Religious Freedom

The story told here is the incremental recognition, expansion, and protection of religious freedom in the U.S.  Asma T.  Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for…



A Quaker Response for a New Capitalism

In Kathryn Tanner, Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism   (2018), the author seems angry at the new dimensions of finance…


Justice With Mercy

Bryan Stevenson,  Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a collection of stories of people harmed in the criminal system…


Global Christian Direction

The book, Brian Stanley, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (2019) describes the 20 …


Quaker Authority

Mathew Stanley, Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (2019) is the 20 …


HPtFtU in Defense of the Christian Tradition

This book is highly praised in the media.  The press reviews appear uniformly positive.  Religious and secular leaders speak in glowing terms in support of the book. … …


Not Innocent or Exceptional

Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence:  A People’s History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror


We are in It Together

Gabriel Reynolds, The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2018) will be seen as a major contribution to global interfaith dialogue…


Quaker Giving

The author of Rob Reich,  Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better ,