"Rarely does one find so much wisdom packed into a book of about 130 pages in length," Stephen W. Angell says of Nothing Can Separate Us, a new anthology of writings by the twentieth-century African American theologian Howard Thurman. "This is one to read slowly and savor."

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"Howard Thurman, an African American theologian and pastor of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, was perhaps the leading spiritual mentor and sensitive guide for...many Quakers and leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr.". Published by @plough.bsky.social

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Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the poet Phillis Wheatley, the first ever African-American woman to be published: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/phillis-wheatley-an-eighteenth-century-genius-in-bondage

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My evening reading this week has been Leanna Renee Hieber’s upcoming Ravenfield Hall, courtesy of NetGalley. Look at this cover and tell me you don’t want to read this by a fire!! There’s disability rep!! There’s ghosts! I’m having a great, atmospheric time.

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