Quaker Universalist Voice

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Reviews

More than One Religion?

D. Bidwell, When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (2018) is unexpected and valuable for counselors, and…


Race and Criminal Law

R. Barkow, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration (2019) focuses on the criminal law challenges in the U.S., not…


Racial Incarceration and Control

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness   (2012) is an angry and illuminating description of…


Hard Grieving

P. Boss, Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (1990) is a series of stories, with comments, of families in distress and…


Afterlife

B. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife , clarifies the obscure history of our cultural education about the afterlife. …



Quaker Embrace of Slavery

Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by K. Gerbner tells us the story as the book’s title reads.  It is a clear, candid, full, and, as yet, uncontested, account of a history that includes…


Alpha Order

Judith Flanders, A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020) describes the evolving idea of alphabetical ordering of…


Human Shield Dangers

N. Gordon and N. Perugini, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire is a description and analysis of…


Testimony

D. Hart, The New Testament: A Translation is an opportunity for Quaker reflection.  This translation of the New Testament is a different…