June/July 2025 Books

June/July 2025 Books

One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

By Daniel Silliman. Eerdmans, 2024. 336 pages. $36.99/hardcover or eBook. In One Lost Soul, Daniel Silliman focuses his attention on…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

June/July 2025 Books

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Edited by Linda H. Chance, Paul B. Reagan, and Tetsuko Toda. Lexington Books, 2024. 372 pages. $125/hardcover; $45/eBook. While reading…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

June/July 2025 Books

Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873–1876)

Edited by Sabrina Darnowsky. Friends United Press, 2024. 156 pages. $22/paperback. In Sowing the Seed of Truth, Sabrina Darnowsky has…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June/July 2025 Books

Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths

By Eleanor Nesbitt. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 104 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. Eleanor Nesbitt’s Open to New Light is…

Reviewed by Diana Sacerio

June/July 2025 Books

Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

By Mirabai Starr. HarperOne, 2024. 240 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Books about integrating the Divine into our mundane lives are always…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

June/July 2025 Books

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By Zoë Schlanger. Harper, 2024. 304 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The debate in the scientific community over the question of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Beyond Chocolate: Adrian Cadbury, Life, Loss, and Leadership

By Patrick Donovan. Unicorn, 2024. 320 pages. $35.95/hardcover; $37.50/eBook. Most Friends today know about the Quaker roots of the famous…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People

By Terry J. Stokes. Broadleaf Books, 2024. 173 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. Terry Stokes is a former parish minister currently working…

Reviewed by Douglas Gwyn

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Thirty-Three Ways Seven Faiths Agree with the Quakers

By Thomas Wolfe R.H. and Companions. Be Friendly Ministries, 2024. 260 pages. $25/paperback. In this book, Thomas Wolfe, a member…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Tiny House of God

By Sara Zavacki-Moore. The Wild Rose Press, 2023. 256 pages. $16.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. This novel opens with a dramatic scene detailing…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

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One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

June 1, 2025

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century

June 1, 2025

Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873–1876)

June 1, 2025