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

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World AND Loving Corrections

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

March 1, 2025

The Light That Is Given: Prophetic Quaker Faith

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

March 1, 2025

This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse

Reviewed by Janaki Spickard Keeler

March 1, 2025

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

March 1, 2025

Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty

Reviewed by Hope Ascher

March 1, 2025

In Brief: Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

March 1, 2025

The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

February 1, 2025

Environmentalism From Blow by Ashley Dawson

Environmentalism from Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 1, 2025

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