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

Reflections from a Solitary Meeting for Worship

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

February 1, 2023

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records (Second Edition)

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

February 1, 2023

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

February 1, 2023

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (Revised Edition)

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 1, 2023

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

February 1, 2023

The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

January 1, 2023

The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

January 1, 2023

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

January 1, 2023

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