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June/July 2015: Activists vs Mystics vs Pragmatists

Organizing with the Spirit
Lucy Duncan
Main Street Activism and Wall Street Advocacy
Jeffery W. Perkins
Revelation and Revolution
Daniel Seeger
Bringing Our Bodies to the Light
Madeline Schaefer
Quaker Books June/July 2015

Life in the Meeting

The Challenge of Celebrating Historical Wars

What does a Friends meeting do when their hometown celebrates war? Sharon Ann Holt
June/July 2015 Books

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 512 pages. $30/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The world is still recoiling from the Charlie…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Douglas Bennett

June/July 2015 Books

Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader

Edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 400 pages. $30/paperback. I have of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

June/July 2015 Books

Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

By James Carroll. Viking, 2014. 352 pages. $30/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. In every age, Christ has presented a challenge: to interpret, to…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June/July 2015 Books

A People’s Curriculum for the Earth

Edited by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart. Rethinking Schools, 2014. 397 pages. $24.95/paperback. As I dipped into A People’s Curriculum…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2015 Books

By Faith and By Love: Martin and Mabel’s Journey

By Beverly England Williams. Resource Publications, 2014. 177 pages. $23/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The story of Martin and Mabel England is a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Beth Taylor

Milestones June/July 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends. Staff
Online Features

Baltimore, the Time Is Now

A Baltimore Friend shares her first-hand experience and perspective from the city's unrest. Sarah Bur

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