Reparations

January 2023

Poetry

when it comes

"it comes a gentle / but insistent pressure..." Morrow Dowdle
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Forum, January 2022

Letter from our readers. Staff
Reflection

Unbundled

I fly from the frigid city of Minneapolis, Minn., to Presque Isle, Maine. Kaylee Berg
January 2023 Books

The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony

By Jonathan Roberts, presented by Martha Claire Catlin. Quaker Heron Press, 2022. 320 pages. $19.99/paperback. First published in 1891 in…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

January 2023 Books

The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

By Resmaa Menakem. Central Recovery Press, 2022. 384 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $18.95/paperback or eBook. This unusual book is difficult to describe.…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

January 2023 Books

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 240 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Bill McKibben is best known as an…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

January 2023 Books

Hillbilly Quaker

By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 475), 2022. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam learned as a child who was…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

January 2023 Books

“Put It Down on Paper”: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search

By Phil Primack. Loom Press, 2022. 232 pages. $20/paperback. Phil Primack takes the reader on a journey of discovery as…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

January 2023 Books

Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

By Mark Yaconelli. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 206 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. For my last Friends Journal book review, of Within Our…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Mary Jane Gray

Gray—Mary Jane Gray, 97, on January 23, 2022, in Corvallis, Ore., where she had been living for more than 30…

Beverly J. Morgan

Morgan—Beverly J. Morgan, 91, on October 7, 2021, at her home in Westby, Wis. Beverly was born on May 31,…

Julia Ann van Ravenswaay

van Ravenswaay—Julia Ann van Ravenswaay, 89, on June 16, 2022, peacefully, in the presence of her son, after a brief…
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