August 2022

August 2022

August 2022 Books

An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights

By Marguerite Kearns. Excelsior Editions, 2021. 354 pages. $34.95/paperback or eBook. This title will likely draw readers with an interest…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

August 2022 Books

These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class AND Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel

By Wendy Sanford. She Writes Press, 2021. 328 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. By Omri Boehm. New York Review of Books, 2021.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

August 2022 Books

Friending Rosie on Death Row

By Judith Favor, with Rosie Alfaro. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 470), 2021. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. The Pendle Hill pamphlet Friending…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 2022 Books

Quakers and Their Meeting Houses

By Chris Skidmore. Liverpool University Press, 2021. 176 pages. $75/hardcover. FJ readers can use code ADISTA5 for 30% off at…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

August 2022 Books

Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It    

By Sharman Apt Russell. Pantheon, 2021. 336 pages. $28.95/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. “The power of a story can change the world.” The…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Herbert Leslie Kinney

Kinney—Herbert Leslie Kinney, 98, on December 23, 2020, at home in Eugene, Ore. Herb was born on April 26, 1922,…

Catherine Louise Anderson

Anderson—Catherine Louise Anderson, 65, on June 21, 2021, peacefully, in the presence of her brother, Allen Anderson, at Bruns House…

Lois Agnes Forbes Sexton

Sexton—Lois Agnes Forbes Sexton, 96, on June 24, 2021, at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson, Md. Lois was born on May…

Shawna Lee Thompson

Thompson—Shawna Lee Thompson, 52, on May 20, 2019, peacefully, from pancreatic cancer, in Tucson, Ariz. Shawna was born on June…

Mary Elizabeth Wyse

Wyse—Mary Elizabeth Wyse, 76, on November 19, 2021, in Monte Vista, Colo., where she and her husband, Richard Wyse, had…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, August 2022

Scattergood Hostel: A Quaker response to the Holocaust. Staff