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April 2017 Books
April 2017 Books
A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee
By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2016. 498 pages. $24.95/paperback. At the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in 1994,…
Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm
April 2017 Books
We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I
Edited by Nancy Learned Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2016. 412 pages. $19.95/paperback. In 1917 Mary Peabody and Leslie Hotson were…
Reviewed by Beth Taylor
April 2017 Books
The Anti-War: Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People
By Douglas Gwyn. Inner Light Books, 2016. 208 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback. Doug Gwyn may have given more thought to the…
Reviewed by Paul Buckley
April 2017 Books
The Beautiful Not Yet
By Carrie Newcomer. Available Light, 2016. 108 pages. $11.99/paperback. 12 tracks. $11.99/CD; $9.49/MP3 album. I once heard Carrie Newcomer recalling…
Reviewed by Patricia Morrison
April 2017 Books
Everyday Prophets
By Margery Post Abbott. James Backhouse Lecture, 2016. 52 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The two words in this title seem so…
Reviewed by Laura Jackson
April 2017 Books
The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing
By Drew Leder. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 304 pages. $30/paperback or eBook. To be human means to lead both…
Reviewed by Margaret Fisher
April 2017 Books
Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Second Edition)
By J. Brent Bill. Eerdmans, 2016. 159 pages. $15.99/paperback or eBook. Brent Bill’s writing style gets right to the point…
In Brief, Compiled by Karie Firoozmand
April 2017 Books
Hero’s Journey: John Ritter, the Chip Hilton of Goshen, Indiana
By Jeff Rasley. Midsummer Books, 2016. 216 pages. $12.95/paperback; $4.95/eBook. What happens when heroes make mistakes or don’t live up…
In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
April 2017 Books
The Voice of Silence
Friend Joyce Povolny wishes to make this volume of votive poems free to those who would like to have it.…
In Brief compiled by Karie Firoozmand
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A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee
April 1, 2017
We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I
April 1, 2017
The Anti-War: Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People
April 1, 2017