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Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould in Friends Journal
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Angels of Progress
A review of the new collection of writings of Progressive Friends.
Mitchell Santine Gould enables financial advisors to collect data for use in emergencies. Curator of Leavesofgrass.org, he is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s rise among “sailors, lovers, and Quakers.” Together with the LGBT Religious Archives Network, he documents the historical intersection between Quakers and gay people.
Posted in: August 2014, Quaker Book ReviewsBooks January 2014
Reviews, featuring titles from Mark Nepo, Lester Brown, Jill Suzanne Shook, Margery Post Abbott, and Reza Aslan.

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017
Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several […]
Mitchell Santine Gould is a leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website LeavesOfGrass.Org. His analysis of Transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Friends Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Posted in: February 2018, February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality
By Mark Segal. Open Lens, an imprint of Akashic Books, 2015. 320 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Just how bad was […]
Mitchell Santine Gould is a gay and Quaker historian who is writing a book on Walt Whitman. He runs an Airbnb destination in Portland, Ore., called PDX Wheelhouse, and is the curator of Leavesofgrass.org.
Posted in: Crossing Cultures, October 2016 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsBooks November 2014
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Quaker Roots and Branches AND The One Thing Needful
Quaker Roots and Branches By John Lampen. Christian Alternative, 2018. 64 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The One Thing Needful: William Shakespeare, […]
Mitchell Santine Gould lives on the Oregon coast with his camerado, Rusty. He is the leading authority on Walt Whitman's Quakerism.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible‐believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church
By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time […]
Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsFeatures
Growing Up Quaker by Finn Kyrie
I Am a Quaker by Melinda Wenner Bradley
Giving Up Childhood to Avert Climate Catastrophe by Jim Ross
Let Your Life Speak by Laura Taylor Kinnel
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Brightened Corner by Ken Gibble
Another Language by Anne Maren‐Hogan
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