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

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

Hillbilly Quaker

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

January 1, 2023

“Put It Down on Paper”: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

January 1, 2023

Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

January 1, 2023

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