Malcolm Bell 
Overdue Heresies [EPUB ebook] 
And the Search for Truth

Contents

Author’s Note

Introduction

My Faith

The Quaker Way

Writing the Book

God

Creation

Science

Atheism

Religion

The Bible

Jews

Isaac

Jesus

Judas

Peter

Christianity

Faith

Miracles

People

Prayer

Suffering

Prophesy

Proselytizing

Sin

Soul

Forgiveness

Salvation

Hell

Afterlife

War

Practice

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Malcolm Bell grew up in Brooklyn, served in the U.S. Army, and practiced law in Manhattan before the state and federal courts of New York. He wrote The Turkey Shoot: Tracking the Attica Cover-up (Grove Press 1985), reissued as The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-up and the Pursuit of Justice, (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017, paperback 2022), which tells of being a New York State prosecutor who was assigned to indict police for the murders and other violent felonies they committed during the 1971 Attica prison riot, then was blocked from finishing the job. He resigned in protest and took the cover-up public in the New York Times, leading to revelations that high State officials had sought to suppress and to more justice than they found convenient.While becoming a confirmed Episcopalian at age thirteen, he began to question traditional Christian doctrines. His spiritual journey took him from the Episcopal Church to a United Church of Christ, where he taught junior and senior high Sunday school, to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where he found his spiritual home. In the 1980s, he became active in the Sanctuary Movement and, as a matter of conscience, broke the law to stand with illegal refugees fleeing the state-led, U.S.-backed terror in Guatemala and El Salvador. He wrote about the Guatemalan civil war in his novel, Roses in the Night.He has long engaged in spiritual discussions in groups where he or he and his wife Nancy were the only Quakers. For the past forty years, he has jotted down his spiritual thoughts; they comprise this book. Today he lives with Nancy among the Green Mountains of Vermont, where he continues to write.