September 2026 Books

September 2026 Books

Rooted and Reimagined: A Quaker Theology in African Soil

By John Muhanji. Chance Publishers, 2026. 480 pages. $25/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I was born a Quaker and grew up within the…

Reviewed by Alfred Mbai

September 2026 Books

26 Weekends in County Jail: A Quaker Journal of Resistance

By Joseph Olejak. Flare Books, 2026. 256 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook. On November 22, 2013, Joseph Olejak entered the holding area…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

September 2026 Books

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

By Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon. Crown, 2026. 240 pages. $30/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. In 2002, I participated in an international…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

September 2026 Books

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William Rotch

By Sarah Crabtree, illustrated by Melissa Philley. Penn State University Press, 2026. 120 pages. $79.99/hardcover; $24.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Historian Sarah Crabtree…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

September 2026 Books

Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing

Edited by Angela G. Schear. University of Georgia Press, 2026. 320 pages. $29.95/paperback or eBook. Abby Hopper Gibbons’s lived experience…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

September 2026 Books

In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School

By Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz. Olive Branch Press, 2025. 248 pages. $25/paperback. Narratives about abolitionists can sometimes miss the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

September 2026 Books

Letting Go: Steps in the Spiritual Life

By Jennifer Kavanagh. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 498), 2026. 31 pages. $8.50/pamphlet or eBook. I’ve read Letting Go: Steps in…

Reviewed by Hope Ascher

September 2026 Books

SCREAM until you know what God is

By Liz Bajjalieh. Fernwood Press, 2026. 132 pages. $22/paperback. Reading SCREAM until you know what God is immediately reminded me…

Reviewed by Rüdiger Herzing Rückmann

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Rooted and Reimagined: A Quaker Theology in African Soil

September 1, 2026

26 Weekends in County Jail: A Quaker Journal of Resistance

September 1, 2026

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

September 1, 2026