Friends Journal Book Reviews

Every issue of Friends Journal includes reviews of recently published books that bring illuminating perspectives to Quakers' spiritual and social concerns. Many of the books we cover can be purchased through FGC'S online Quakerbooks store.

Latest Book Reviews

Rooted and Reimagined: A Quaker Theology in African Soil

Reviewed by Alfred Mbai

September 1, 2026

26 Weekends in County Jail: A Quaker Journal of Resistance

Reviewed by Michele Sands

September 1, 2026

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

September 1, 2026

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William Rotch

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

September 1, 2026

Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

September 1, 2026

In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

September 1, 2026

Letting Go: Steps in the Spiritual Life

Reviewed by Hope Ascher

September 1, 2026

SCREAM until you know what God is

Reviewed by Rüdiger Herzing Rückmann

September 1, 2026

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