2021

Quaker Book Reviews

Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus

By Rachel Pieh Jones. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 280 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. Rachel Pieh Jones’s book Pillars: How Muslim Friends…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Quaker Book Reviews

The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder

By Richard Rohr. Franciscan Media, 2020. 224 pages. $18.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and founder of the Center…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Quaker Book Reviews

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2020. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook.  The murder of George Floyd, which became a…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Quaker Book Reviews

Just Us: An American Conversation

By Claudia Rankine. Graywolf Press, 2020. 360 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Claudia Rankine’s latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation,…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

Quaker Book Reviews

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

By Wes Moore with Erica L. Green. One World, 2020. 320 pages.  $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $4.99/eBook.   In April of 2015, I…

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance

Hugh Stewart Barbour

Barbour—Hugh Stewart Barbour, 99, January 8, 2021, calmly in his sleep while a resident of Kendal on Hudson in Sleepy…

Mary Lou Goertzen

Goertzen—Mary Lou Goertzen, 91, Oct. 20, 2020, at home in “the blue schoolhouse” in Deadwood, Ore. She was buried next…

Thomas (Tom) Lowes Kenworthy

Kenworthy—Thomas (Tom) Lowes Kenworthy, 84, December 28, 2020, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. Tom was born on April…

Jeffrey Meyer

Meyer—Jeffrey Meyer, 82, on December 17, 2020, at home with wife Cathy and son Joel by his side, in Davidson,…

Elizabeth (Betsy) H. Call Wolgast

Wolgast – Elizabeth (Betsy) H. Call Wolgast, 91, on October 13, 2020, from complications following a stroke, in a convalescent…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, September 2021

Being an open transgender minister, especially in smaller communities, is not an easy thing to do. Staff
Among Friends

Mourning What We Missed, Keeping What We Gained

Introduction to our August issue. Gabriel Ehri
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