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November 2024 Books

Deep Hospitality: Reflections on Welcome to the Quaker Community

By Rhiannon Grant. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 487), 2024. 34 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Does your Quaker meeting long to…

Reviewed by Diane Randall

November 2024 Books

Sketches from Behind Prison Walls

Illustrated by Rein Kolts, introduction and commentary by Devon M. Kurtz. Quaker Institute for the Future, 2024. 104 pages. $40/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Signe Wilkinson

November 2024 Books

Standing Up to Hate: The Charlottesville Clergy Collective and the Lessons from August 12, 2017

Edited by Michael Cheuk. Nurturing Faith, 2023. 138 pages. $20/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Standing Up to Hate is raw in two senses…

Reviewed by Abigail E. Adams

November 2024 Books

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By Tiya Miles. Penguin Press, 2024. 336 pages. $30/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. There are already quite a few exceptional biographies of Harriet…

Reviewed by Mike Fallahay

November 2024 Books

The Woolman Way: A History of John Woolman School

By Lisa Frankel and Catherine Lenox. Self-published, 2023. 402 pages. $24.95/paperback. As a longtime teacher and administrator at a Friends…

Reviewed by Brad Gibson

November 2024 Books

The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century

By Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson. Rutgers University Press, 2023. 172 pages. $150/hardcover; $27.95/paperback or eBook. The Farm…

Reviewed by Casey Hobbs

November 2024 Books

Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

By Yahia Lababidi. Fomite, 2023. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Yahia Lababidi’s Quarantine Notes is a book of 520 aphorisms. According…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

David T. Bates

Bates—David T. Bates, 82, on March 11, 2024, peacefully in his sleep, at West Chester Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in… Staff

Suzanne Rie Day

Day—Suzanne Rie Day, 86, on January 16, 2024, following a brief battle with cancer, peacefully at home, surrounded by her… Staff

Foster Quarll Doan

Doan—Foster Quarll Doan, 93, suddenly, on May 11, 2024, in Drums, Pa. Foster was born on June 23, 1930, to… Staff

James Edgar Syphers

Syphers—James Edgar Syphers, 90, on January 8, 2024, at WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital in Uniontown, Pa. James was born on… Staff
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