February 2021

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Letters from our readers. Staff
Reflection

Becoming Sturdy

Becoming sturdy in the unstable soil requires the strength from our bones. Kaylee Berg
Witness

Young Friends Worldwide Organize for Climate Justice

Young Friends around the world have been meeting online to consider climate action, peace, and justice. Susanna Mattingly
February 2021 Books

When the Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of Ministry

By Jay Marshall. QuakerPress of FGC, 2020. 128 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Friends like to say that we are all ministers,…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

February 2021 Books

Mind the Oneness: The Mystic Way of the Quakers

By Rex Ambler. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 463), 2020. 44 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As Quakers, we often refer to ourselves as…

Reviewed by William Shetter

February 2021 Books

Quakers Do What! Why?

By Rhiannon Grant. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2020. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Rhiannon Grant is a regular contributor to…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

February 2021 Books

Palestine and Israel: A Personal Encounter

By Max L. Carter. Barclay Press, 2020. 150 pages. $16/paperback. There are no easy answers when it comes to alleviating…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

February 2021 Books

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 AND Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

By Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, 2020. 336 pages. $30/hardcover; $18/paperback; $14.99/eBook. By Sa’ed Atshan. Stanford University Press, 2020. 296 pages.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

February 2021 Books

When Should Law Forgive?

By Martha Minow. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 256 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. When Should Law Forgive? is like…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2021 Books

Native Species

By Todd Davis. Michigan State University Press, 2019. 110 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. For many years, the call of the…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

Viewpoint

Debt and the Pandemic

There is a need to reconsider the system of money creation in the light of history and current needs. John N. Howell

Byron Wilbur Bender

Bender—Byron Wilbur Bender, 90, on January 4, 2020, at Kaiser Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. Byron was born on August 14,…
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