September 2016

September 2016

Pursuing Justice Requires Boldness by Nekima Levy-Pounds
FGC Gathering Photos from Arthur Fink, Piper Lewis, and John Margerum
Equality Among Today’s Vikings by George Lakey
The Third Reconstruction by William J Barber II
Let’s Grow Together
FJ Book Reviews

Features

Climate Change Can’t Wait for Quaker Time

Balancing patience with urgency in the monthly meeting. Marjorie McKelvey Isaacs
Features

The Third Reconstruction

It's time to get America above the snake line of racial oppression. William J. Barber II
Let's Grow Together

Let’s Grow Together: Reflections on Growth and Abundance

We look back on a year of our "Let's Grow Together" columns. Staff
Faith and Practice

Dispatches from a Week of Piano Practice

Faith and practice. Margery Abbott

News, September 2016

News from Friends at the FGC Gathering, British Quakers in business, and the Friends Committee on Scouting.
Quaker Book Reviews

Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

By Sarah Crabtree. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 270 pages. $45/hardcover; $10/eBook loan. In the heady early days of Quakerism,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Quaker Book Reviews

What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

By Wen Stephenson. Beacon Press, 2015. 239 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $18/paperback; $23.99/eBook. When I was young, our family would make an…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Laura Jackson

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

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