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

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy by Barbara Birch

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

October 1, 2025

Read the Bible Like a Mystic: Contemplative Wisdom and the World by Carl McColman

Read the Bible like a Mystic: Contemplative Wisdom and the Word

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

October 1, 2025

Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise: Poems

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

October 1, 2025

To Hear and To Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation by Brian T. Blackmore

In Brief: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946–1973

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

October 1, 2025

The Green New Deal From Below by Jeremy Brecher

In Brief: The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

Reviewed by Abigail E. Adams

October 1, 2025

Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

September 1, 2025

Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America AND Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations: Quaker Complicity with Slavery (1657–1776) and White Supremacy

Reviewed by Michele Sands

September 1, 2025

Embracing Spiritual Gifts

Reviewed by Derek Brown

September 1, 2025

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