Stewardship as a Testimony

December 2023

December 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America’s Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia

By P. O’Connell Pearson. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023. 288 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $8.99/paperback (available in January); $10.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

December 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

No Quiet Water

By Shirley Miller Kamada. Black Rose Writing, 2023. 356 pages. $23.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. In No…

Reviewed by Judith Wright Favor

Claire Philip Balderston

Balderston—Claire Philip Balderston, 84, on June 20, 2023, in Knox Township, Ohio. Phil was born on July 26, 1938, to…

Marian Heddleston Carter

Carter—Marian Heddleston Carter, 93, on August 22, 2023, in San Antonio, Tex. Marian was born on February 17, 1930, on…

David Allen Coats

Coats—David Allen Coats, 81, on April 18, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minn. David was born on January 21, 1942, to Robert…

Richard Gilbert Hutchins

Hutchins—Richard Gilbert Hutchins, 90, on September 14, 2022, with his loving daughters at his side at Foxdale Village, a Quaker…

Free Polazzo

Polazzo—Free Polazzo, 79, on October 11, 2023, from acute respiratory failure, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. Free was…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, December 2023

Spirituality on the road. Christopher Cuthrell