Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all‐time favorite books for Quakers.
Reviewed by Diane Reynolds in Friends Journal
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Books November 2013
Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the […]
The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Women, Sexuality, and Nazi Germany
By Diane Reynolds. Cascade Books, 2016. 449 pages. $53/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and […]
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and the co-director of Brown University’s Nonfiction Writing Program.
Posted in: Crossing Cultures, October 2016 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsBooks June/July 2013
Discernment: Living Under Divine Guidance North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Journal (number 6), 2012. 62 pages. Free download at www.ncymc.org/journal. Reviewed […]
Discovering Humor in the Bible: An Explorer’s Guide
By Howard R. Macy. Cascade Books, 2016. 140 pages. $19/paperback or eBook. Quakers have a tradition dating back at least […]
Diane Reynolds is a member of Stillwater Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio, and a former member of Patapsco Meeting in Ellicott City, Md.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books
Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace
By J. Brent Bill. Abingdon Press, 2015. 208 pages. $16.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker, Brent Bill […]
Diane Reynolds is a member of Stillwater Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio, and a former member of Patapsco Meeting in Ellicott City, Md.
Posted in: August 2016 Books, August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Quaker Book Reviews
Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People
Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2016. 357 pages. $18/paperback; $9.99/eBook. As Quakers know, community building is hard, […]
Diane Reynolds lives in Barnesville, Ohio, and is a member of Stillwater Meeting. She is the author of The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and an adjunct English professor.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker LibrariesThe Passion
By the time I saw Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, much had been written about the film’s violence. […]
Diane Reynolds attends Patapsco Preparative Meeting in Ellicott City, Md.
Posted in: Features
Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)
Edited by James W. Hood. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2016. 167 pages. $19.95/paperback. The central thread that holds together […]
Michael S. Glaser is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 to 2009. He and his wife, Kathleen, offer retreats that fuse Parker J. Palmer’s Courage and Renewal work with reading and writing poetry. His website is michaelsglaser.com.
Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media
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April 2019
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Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry O’Regan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman
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I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
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