Why Tolerate Religion?, by Brian Leiter (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012) The title of this new book by Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion?, is not accurate, but the argument in this book should matter deeply to Quakers. A more accurate title…
Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War , edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) This review was originally published by Anthony Manousos on his LA Quaker blog on…
Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2012) Life on the Brink asks the question, “Do humans have a right to take all resources of the earth?” The book reflects a…
An Introduction to the Unitarian and Universalist Traditions by Andrea Greenwood and Mark W. Harris. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2011. As a Quaker active with the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, I was drawn to review this book because I wanted to…
Sophia Rosenfeld, Common Sense: A Political History (Harvard University Press, 2011) … Is the Light in Quaker testimony the same as common sense? Is common sense a universal of the human…
Holmes Rolston III , Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind, (Columbia University Press, 2010) … by Larry Spears … We lack a story of the universe. Genesis is the story of this world. The first words of the…
George Levine, ed., The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now (Princeton University Press, 2011) … By Larry Spears … Properly viewed, this book, George Levine, ed., The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live…
E. Ecklund, Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think (Oxford University Press 2010) … By Larry Spears … Why do Quakers care about what scientists think about religion and reality? This book, E. Ecklund, Science vs.
Beyond the intriguing title, Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole (2011), author Stephen Law provides helpful advice for understanding our Quaker faith and its communication to others. He wants to protect us…
… By Larry Spears … Fakrul Alam and Radha Chakravarty eds., The Essential Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore (Belknap Press, 2011) … Rabindranath Tagore was not an incomparable genius as the editors of this collection of…