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Books March 2014

Book reviews

Staff

Forum, January 2022

Letters from our readers.

Staff

In Brief: Beyond Denial: Essays on Consciousness, Spiritual Practice, and Social Repair

By Anthony E. Acheson. Green Place Books, 2021. 302 pages. $19.95/paperback; $7.99/eBook. Beyond Denial is an essay collection that sketches…

Reviewed by John Bond

Another Reflection on Marriage among Friends

Two Friends Journal articles reflecting on marriage—renewing vows and speaking plainly to those divorcing—appeared just as my husband and I…

Georgana Foster

Around the Web: Quakers Respond to the George Zimmerman Verdict

Around the web and within communities of Friends, Quakers are responding to the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial, in which Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Gail Whiffen

How Quaker War Tax Resistance Came and Went, Twice

A history of a sometimes-forgotten Quaker witness.

David M. Gross

Books October 2014

Book reviews

Staff

Our Friends Are Not Just Humans

We share the same brain as the iguana with the same gifts and liabilities.

Jakob Doors

The Willoughbys on Pacifism

Ironically, few issues have divided Quakers more than war-making and peacemaking. A favorite image of Quakers in the wider world…

Gregory A. Barnes

Slavery in the Quaker World

Christian slavery and White supremacy.

Katharine Gerbner