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Pacifism and the Peace Testimony Today

September 2026

Poetry

Consolation

On a loose stone atop the bluestone wall / by the gate, this lichen’s a rough oval . . . Anne Richey
Poetry

Hospice Bed Tales

If hospice beds could speak / We’d hear not much of ways to die / But of ways to live Bonnie Stockslager
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Forum, September 2026

Letters from our readers. Staff
Quakers and Money

No Clean Hands

Discerning a personal ethics of economics. Peterson Toscano
Service

Teaching Peace, Justice, and Equality in Early Childhood Classrooms

One meeting's collaboration with local schools. Ingrid Chalufour
Faith and Practice

Grounded Presence, Sinking Deep

A testimony of a leading to eldership. Sian Saul
September 2026 Books

Rooted and Reimagined: A Quaker Theology in African Soil

By John Muhanji. Chance Publishers, 2026. 480 pages. $25/paperback; $9.99/eBook. I was born a Quaker and grew up within the…

Reviewed by Alfred Mbai

September 2026 Books

26 Weekends in County Jail: A Quaker Journal of Resistance

By Joseph Olejak. Flare Books, 2026. 256 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook. On November 22, 2013, Joseph Olejak entered the holding area…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

September 2026 Books

The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

By Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon. Crown, 2026. 240 pages. $30/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. In 2002, I participated in an international…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

September 2026 Books

Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William Rotch

By Sarah Crabtree, illustrated by Melissa Philley. Penn State University Press, 2026. 120 pages. $79.99/hardcover; $24.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Historian Sarah Crabtree…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

September 2026 Books

Mercy in Disaster: Abby Hopper Gibbons’s Journals and Letters from Four Years of Civil War Nursing

Edited by Angela G. Schear. University of Georgia Press, 2026. 320 pages. $29.95/paperback or eBook. Abby Hopper Gibbons’s lived experience…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

September 2026 Books

In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School

By Tom Weiner and Amilcar Shabazz. Olive Branch Press, 2025. 248 pages. $25/paperback. Narratives about abolitionists can sometimes miss the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

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