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Wayne A. Newell

Newell—Wayne A. Newell, 79, on December 23, 2021, at home surrounded by his family in Motahkomikuk (Indian Township), Maine. Wayne…

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January 2016 Books

Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

By Daniel Hunter. The Veterans of Hope Project, 2015. 71 pages. $10/paperback; $4/eBook. A number of yearly meetings have been…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Whose DNA Is It Anyway?

What if your girlfriend asked you to take a DNA test before you got engaged? Or your employer wanted a…

Margery Post Abbott

March 2021 Books

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. The New Press, 2020. 320 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. Prison by Any Other Name turns…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

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The End of the Quaker Handshake?

The history and future of one of Friends’ most ingrained practices.

Stephen W. Angell

January 2021 Books

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. AK Press, 2020. 260 pages. $18/paperback; $17.99/eBook. Beyond Survival is a collection…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Heron Reflections

On the road home from the wedding of Muriel Bishop and Douglas Summers, reunited after many years apart, a beautiful,…

Caroline Balderston Parry

November 2015 Books

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Allowing Ourselves to Be Bold

The experience of Earth Quaker Action Team.

George Lakey

October 2020 Books

Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant

By Emily Provance. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 461), 2020. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Picture an equilateral triangle—let’s call it a “covenant…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar