November 2025 Books

November 2025 Books

Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

By David Chanoff. University of Georgia Press, 2025. 232 pages. $32.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. This is not the book I expected: a…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2025 Books

Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

By Jane E. Calvert. Oxford University Press, 2024. 608 pages. $35/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The Fairhill area of North Philadelphia is generally…

Reviewed by Signe Wilkinson

November 2025 Books

Awakening the Witness: Convincement and Belonging in Quaker Community

By Matt Rosen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 492), 2025. 30 pages. $8.50/paperback; $7.50/eBook. Matt Rosen’s engaging pamphlet, Awakening the Witness,…
November 2025 Books

A Revolution in Common

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2025. 124 pages. $10/paperback. Douglas Gwyn is writing as fast as he can: the introduction…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

November 2025 Books

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

Transcribed and edited by David R. Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2024. 80 pages. $16/paperback; $8/eBook. “What Canst We Say?” The…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

November 2025 Books

Palestine and Israel: Understanding Encounters

By Max L. Carter. Barclay Press, 2025. 320 pages. $30/paperback. North Carolina Quaker Max Carter once quipped, “It is an…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

November 2025 Books

The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By Jennifer Powell McNutt. Brazos Press, 2024. 272 pages. $47.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. The “forgotten Mary” of this book is Mary…

Reviewed by Derek Brown

November 2025 Books

Aflame: Learning from Silence

By Pico Iyer. Riverhead Books, 2025. 240 pages. $30/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Aflame: Learning from Silence centers upon author Pico Iyer’s more…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

November 2025 Books

Yorùbá Boy Running: A Novel

By Biyi Bándélé. Harper, 2024. 288 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. “Àjàyí!” exclaimed my Nigerian friend Philip Omogbai, on seeing the photograph…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

November 2025 Books

WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging

By Lisa Lundeen. Plants and Poetry, 2023. 138 pages. $25/paperback. At first glance, WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging seems…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

November 2025 Books

In Brief: Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage

By Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda. Fortress Press, 2024. 374 pages. $35/paperback; $32.99/eBook. People who think our economy is very healthy will…

Reviewed by Tom Head

November 2025 Books

The Amazing Carnival Barker

By Jonathan Talbot, illustrated by Signe Wilkinson. Self-published, 2025. 44 pages. $12.95/paperback. Two talented Quaker artists have teamed up to…

Reviewed by Gail Whiffen

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Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

November 1, 2025

Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

November 1, 2025

Awakening the Witness: Convincement and Belonging in Quaker Community

November 1, 2025