April 2025

Reflection

Divine Dress Code

My accidental journey into simplicity. Amy Andreassen
FJ Spotlight

A ‘Friendly Woman’ Reunion

North Carolina Quaker women celebrate their work on periodical. Sharlee DiMenichi
April 2025 Books

William Penn: A Radical, Conservative Quaker

By J. William Frost. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. 258 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. Everybody knows who William Penn was.…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

April 2025 Books

Opening the Parables

By M. D. Hayden. Wipf & Stock, 2024. 242 pages. $47/hardcover; $32/paperback or eBook. The reader gets a glimpse of…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

April 2025 Books

In Search of Hope: A Personal Quaker Journey

By Joanna Godfrey Wood. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2024. 104 pages. $9.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. The initial idea for Joanna Godfrey…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

April 2025 Books

Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine

By Oren Kroll-Zeldin. New York University Press, 2024. 280 pages. $30/hardcover or eBook. Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love:…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

April 2025 Books

Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis

By Debórah Dwork. W.W. Norton & Company, 2025. 256 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $28.49/eBook. Faced with mass arrests, deportations, and genocide, whom…

Reviewed by Trevor Brandt

April 2025 Books

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By Kaitlin B. Curtice. Brazos Press, 2023. 208 pages. $22.99/hardcover or eBook. Friends can learn a lot from Indigenous peoples…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

April 2025 Books

The Language of Light: Poems of Wit, Whimsy, and (Maybe) Wisdom

By Nancy Thomas. Fernwood Press, 2024. 122 pages. $19/paperback. The Language of Light is a collection of poems that are…

Reviewed by Sandy Farley

Viewpoint

A Quaker Attends a Gun Show

Seeking a process of peace. Robert Fonow

Thelma Staley Burritt

Burritt—Thelma Staley Burritt, 95, on October 6, 2022, at her home in Greensboro, N.C. Thelma was born on May 4,…

Hali H. Giessler

Giessler—Hali H. Giessler, 97, on August 25, 2024, in Livonia, Mich. Hali was born on February 6, 1927, to Fritz…
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