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

Those Who Stayed: A Vietnam Diary

Reviewed by Robert Levering

October 1, 2025

Two Women, One War: An Unlikely Friendship During the Vietnam War

Reviewed by Eileen Redden

October 1, 2025

Annice Carter’s Life of Quaker Service: Harmonizing Practice with Principle at Home, in Palestine, and in Kenya

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

October 1, 2025

Speaking in Quaker Meeting for Worship: What, When, How, and Why

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

October 1, 2025

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

October 1, 2025

Read the Bible like a Mystic: Contemplative Wisdom and the Word

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

October 1, 2025

Forest of Noise: Poems

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

October 1, 2025

In Brief: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946–1973

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

October 1, 2025

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