AFSC Centennial

April 2017: American Friends Service Committee’s Centennial

Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times by Shan Cretin
Facing Facism, McCarthyism, and the New Jim Crow by Laura Magnani
The Courageous Many by Lucy Duncan
Henry Cadbury, AFSC, and Haverford College, David Harrington Watt and James Krippner
Interview with Joyce Ajlouny
Friends Journal Books

Quaker Works April 2017

A semiannual feature highlighting the recent works of Quaker organizations. Categories include Advocacy; Consultation, Support, and Resources; Development; Education; Environmental…
Online Features

Peace Works: A Century of Action

AFSC's website Peace Works: Century of Action was created to gather and share stories from the past and present. Here… Tony Heriza
Online Features

Friends, Peace, and Justice in Baltimore

Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie… Kathryn Munnell
April 2017 Books

A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2016. 498 pages. $24.95/paperback. At the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in 1994,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

April 2017 Books

We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I

Edited by Nancy Learned Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2016. 412 pages. $19.95/paperback. In 1917 Mary Peabody and Leslie Hotson were…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Beth Taylor

April 2017 Books

The Anti-War: Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People

By Douglas Gwyn. Inner Light Books, 2016. 208 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback. Doug Gwyn may have given more thought to the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Paul Buckley

April 2017 Books

The Beautiful Not Yet

By Carrie Newcomer. Available Light, 2016. 108 pages. $11.99/paperback. 12 tracks. $11.99/CD; $9.49/MP3 album. I once heard Carrie Newcomer recalling…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patricia Morrison

April 2017 Books

Everyday Prophets

By Margery Post Abbott. James Backhouse Lecture, 2016. 52 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The two words in this title seem so…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Laura Jackson

April 2017 Books

The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing

By Drew Leder. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 304 pages. $30/paperback or eBook. To be human means to lead both…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret Fisher

April 2017 Books

Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Second Edition)

By J. Brent Bill. Eerdmans, 2016. 159 pages. $15.99/paperback or eBook. Brent Bill’s writing style gets right to the point…

Reviewed by In Brief, Compiled by Karie Firoozmand

Sally Winton Bryan

Bryan—Sally Winton Bryan, 95, on October 25, 2015, in San Juan Island, Wash. Sally was born on July 15, 1920,…

Margaret L. Fogg

Fogg—Margaret L. Fogg, 90, on January 7, 2017, in Tallahassee, Fla., after a brief illness. Margaret was born on November…
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