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

Seeds That Change the World: Essays on Quakerism, Spirituality, Faith, and Culture

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

June 1, 2018

Mary and William Dyer: Quaker Light and Puritan Ambition in Early New England

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

June 1, 2018

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

June 1, 2018

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

June 1, 2018

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Reviewed by Anna McCormally

June 1, 2018

Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

June 1, 2018

The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

Reviewed by Dave Austin

June 1, 2018

Shelter

Reviewed by Margaret T. Walden

May 1, 2018

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