Affinity Groups and Worship

Witness

Growing Hearts of Compassion

A Quaker witness in the West Bank. Cliff Loesch
October 2025 Books

Those Who Stayed: A Vietnam Diary

By Claudia Krich. University of Virginia Press, 2025. 304 pages. $34.95/hardcover or eBook. Quakers are well-known for our peace testimony.…

Reviewed by Robert Levering

October 2025 Books

Two Women, One War: An Unlikely Friendship During the Vietnam War

By Jane Barton Griffith. Koehler Books, 2025. 224 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback; $7.99/eBook. This book is a memoir of a remarkable…

Reviewed by Eileen Redden

October 2025 Books

Annice Carter’s Life of Quaker Service: Harmonizing Practice with Principle at Home, in Palestine, and in Kenya

By Betsy Alexander, Max L. Carter, and Sarabeth Marcinko. Friends United Press, 2023. 266 pages. $19.99/paperback. This biography of twentieth-century…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

Speaking In Quaker Meeting For Worship by Rhiannon Grant October 2025 Books

Speaking in Quaker Meeting for Worship: What, When, How, and Why

By Rhiannon Grant. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2025. 88 pages. $11.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. In 1700, Quakers learned how to worship…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy by Barbara Birch October 2025 Books

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy

By Barbara Birch. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2025. 112 pages. $12.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Lectio divina, Latin for “divine reading,” is…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Read the Bible Like a Mystic: Contemplative Wisdom and the World by Carl McColman October 2025 Books

Read the Bible like a Mystic: Contemplative Wisdom and the Word

By Carl McColman. Broadleaf Books, 2025. 202 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. One might be tempted to see the title of Carl…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha October 2025 Books

Forest of Noise: Poems

By Mosab Abu Toha. Knopf, 2024. 96 pages. $22/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Mother forgot the cake in the oven,the bomb smoke mixed…

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

To Hear and To Respond: The Quakers' Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation by Brian T. Blackmore October 2025 Books

In Brief: To Hear and to Respond: The Quakers’ Groundbreaking Push for Gay Liberation, 1946–1973

By Brian T. Blackmore. Brill, 2025. 108 pages. $84/paperback or eBook. Blackmore, an independent scholar and Friend living in Philadelphia,…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

The Green New Deal From Below by Jeremy Brecher October 2025 Books

In Brief: The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

By Jeremy Brecher. University of Illinois Press, 2024. 224 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook. This book, published during 2024’s election year, might…

Reviewed by Abigail E. Adams

Sheila M. Nary Bach

Bach—Sheila M. Nary Bach, 88, on December 11, 2024, peacefully, at home in McCall, Idaho. Sheila was born on October…

Mariellen Owens Gilpin

Gilpin—Mariellen Owens Gilpin, 82, on July 24, 2023, at Heritage Health nursing facility in Gibson City, Ill. Mariellen was born…
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