Articles By Author

What Now?
A practical view of salvation.
December 1, 2022
Ann Birch
Talking with Paroled People about Money
The best prison programs offer academic classes, but the experience of talking with ordinary people about ordinary life is necessarily missing.
September 1, 2021
Ann Birch
When Is a Creed Not a Creed?
Revisiting that of God in every man.
March 1, 2020
Ann Birch
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II
By Andrea Warren. Margaret Ferguson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
December 1, 2019
Reviewed by Ann Birch
El Paso Quakers on the Border Today
How Friends along the Mexican border are responding to needs.
March 1, 2019
Ann Birch
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind
By Cynthia Grady, illustrated by Amiko Hirao. Charlesbridge, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. When some of…
December 1, 2018
Reviewed by Ann Birch
Spirit?
Spirit seems to have assumed a major office among Friends.
June 1, 2018
Ann Birch
Pandora
By Victoria Turnbull. Clarion Books, 2017. 30 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Pandora, a fox, lives at a…
May 1, 2018
Reviewed by Ann Birch
Maybe God Is Like That Too
FJ Review: "Benjamin Schipper’s colorful, cartoon-like illustrations of big city life came as a welcome surprise, in contrast to the bucolic scenes I expected in a book about seeing God in the world."
December 1, 2017
Reviewed by Dee Ann Birch Cameron