2016

Quaker Book Reviews

Disarming Conflict

By Ernie Regehr. Zed Books, 2015. 228 pages. $19.95/paperback. One of the great mysteries of this world is why we…

Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn

Quaker Book Reviews

The Good War That Wasn’t—and Why It Matters: World War II’s Moral Legacy

By Ted Grimsrud. Cascade Books, 2014. 286 pages. $35/paperback; $9.99/eBook. “All war is immoral.” —Curtis LeMay, commander of American Air…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William H. Mueller

Quaker Book Reviews

The Limits of Forgiveness: Case Studies in the Distortion of a Biblical Ideal

By Maria Mayo. Fortress Press, 2015. 253 pages. $39/paperback; $22.99/eBook. Here we have a book that draws us into a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

Quaker Book Reviews

The Everywhere Oracle: A Guided Journey Through Poetry for an Ensouled World

By Caryl Ann Casbon. Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2015. 112 pages. $17.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. There is a deep part of every human being that…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Valerie Brown

Quaker Book Reviews

The Secret Chord

By Geraldine Brooks. Viking, 2015. 302 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $13.99/eBook. In Geraldine Brooks’s midrash of the story of King David,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Joan Dyer Liversidge

Mary Margaret Binford Bailey

Bailey—Mary Margaret Binford Bailey, 95, on May 7, 2016, at Foulkeways in Gwynedd, Pa., peacefully, surrounded by her children and…

Beatrice Ridgway Carson

Carson—Beatrice Ridgway Carson, 95, of Oakford, Pa., on May 16, 2016. Bea was born on September 5, 1920, in Bucks…

Harold Cedric Field

Field—Harold Cedric Field, 97, on August 7, 2015. Harold was born on December 23, 1917, in Minneapolis, Minn., to Myrtle…

Chloe Giles Wood

Wood—Chloe Giles Wood, 82, on March 14, 2016, in Talent, Ore. Chloe was born on June 8, 1933, in Las…

Among Friends: An Everlasting Space for Truth

An introduction to our issue on Quaker Spaces.

Forum, August 2016

Letters from our readers.
Features

Framing the Light

Quaker meetinghouses as space and Spirit. Jean Schnell
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