February 2018 Books Archives - Friends Journal

February 2018 Books

Living in Dark Times

By Rex Ambler. Pendle Hill, 2017. 27 pages. $7/Pamphlet. Reading the title of this pamphlet calls up images of the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2018 Books

The Call to Radical Faithfulness: Covenant in Quaker Experience

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2017, 104 pages. $10/Paperback; $5/eBook. In this inspired collection of short essays, sermons, and half-hour…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Steve Chase

February 2018 Books

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

February 2018 Books

An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820–1830

By Susan M. Ouellette. State University of New York Press, 2017. 380 pages. $29.95/paperback; $29.95/eBook. For ten years, 1820 through…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Neal Burdick

February 2018 Books

Being Quaker…Where you are: A Journey Among Isolated Friends in the Northwest

By Sakre Kennington Edson. Western Friend, 2017. 244 pages. $20/paperback; $9/eBook. In the middle of an overly full week, I…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

February 2018 Books

Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

By Casey Tygrett. IVP Books, 2017. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Got faith? Then why question? Now there’s a question, and…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rob Pierson

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Living in Dark Times

February 1, 2018

The Call to Radical Faithfulness: Covenant in Quaker Experience

February 1, 2018

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

February 1, 2018