The Little Books of Justice & Peacemaking is a great series of books that convey key arenas of scholarship, theory, and methodology in manageable sizes (about 100 pages each book or 1/2…
Category: The Prophetic
Quick Review: Building the Bridge As You Walk On It
One of the books I enjoyed over the summer was Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: Building the Bridge As You Walk On It by Robert E. Quinn. It’s an…
Quick Review: Interfaith Just Peacemaking
I just finished not too long ago the book Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This was…
Quick Review: In the Name of Identity
I read this really interesting book this week, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf. Maalouf is Lebanese but has spent much of his life in France….
Quick Review: Tears We Cannot Stop
Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
Quick Review: How to Think
I have greatly enjoyed Alan Jacobs’ How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. But at the time of writing, the e-book is $1.99 at last check so I’d encourage you to check it out if you haven’t…
Quick Review – Tribe: On Homecoming and belonging
A few weeks back I read Sebastian Junger’s Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. This wasn’t too long of a read, but full of interesting research, history, and assessment on modern society. I’m working through developing my…
Quick Review: Restoring Justice
I read a few weeks back Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice by Daniel W. Van Ness and Karen Heetderks Strong as one of several different peacemaking systems I’ve been reading…
Quick Review: The Fire Next Time
I read James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time over the weekend and found it really powerful. I had wanted to read it for a while and have heard many people compare Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between…