Forgiveness

January 2024

January 2024 Books

Quakers and Science

By Helen Holt. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 104 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. This text packs a lot of thought…

Reviewed by Don Smith

January 2024 Books

Befriending the Prophets

By Howard R. Macy. Barclay Press, 2023. 76 pages. $16/paperback. In his brief book Befriending the Prophets, Howard Macy, a…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

January 2024 Books

The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Story of a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Working for Peace and Justice in Palestine/Israel

By Jonathan Kuttab. Hawakati Publishing, 2023. 328 pages. $21.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. It was heartbreaking to have the optimism engendered by listening…

Reviewed by Lynne Weiss

January 2024 Books

The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

By Peniel E. Joseph. Basic Books, 2022. 288 pages. $27/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This book was very different from Peniel Joseph’s earlier…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

January 2024 Books

Rhetoric in Debt

By Kellie Sharp-Hoskins. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 204 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. Rhetoric in Debt opens with a morality…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Viewpoint

Quakerly Gadflies

Most definitions of the word gadfly make people like me sound like pests, but that’s not how I see it. Kathy Hersh

Marie Orvis Andrew

Andrew—Marie Orvis Andrew, 98, on July 30, 2023, peacefully, at MacKenzie Place retirement community in Colorado Springs, Colo. Marie was born…

Sonda Christine Beal

Beal—Sonda Christine Beal, 78, on August 14, 2022, in Santa Cruz, Calif. Sonda was born on January 14, 1944, in…

Teresa Ann “Terry” Howland

Howland—Teresa Ann “Terry” Howland, 75, on September 18, 2022, in Tucson, Ariz. Terry was born on October 19, 1946, to…

Elizabeth “Sonny” Meng

Meng—Elizabeth “Sonny” Meng, 90, on May 3, 2022, after a short stay at the Pines Nursing Home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.…

Sharon Reimer

Reimer—Sharon Reimer, 74, on April 23, 2023, after a short illness, in Boulder, Colo. Sharon was born on February 8,…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, January 2024

“Most Quakers still don’t know our history as participants in this enterprise of forced assimilation of Native people,” Paula Palmer… Christopher Cuthrell