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June/July 2015 Books

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 512 pages. $30/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The world is still recoiling from the Charlie…

Reviewed by Douglas Bennett

Features

A Glimpse of Heaven on Earth

The First Quaker Communities

Stuart Masters

On Authority, A New Apologia

Can science and morality explain why something is holy?

Jacob Stone

Interview with Jessica Metheringham, creator of Disarm the Base

We talk with the Quaker creator of a new antiwar, direct action board game.

Gail Whiffen

Features

Library as Metaphor

A 180-year-old Quaker library begins a new chapter.

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Reviving our Testimonies

How do we testify, and to what?

Michael D. Levi

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

August 2019 Books

Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution

By Priya Satia. Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pages. $35/hardcover; $22/paperback (available in October); $15.99/eBook. his big book (approximately 420 pages…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Quaker Book Reviews

Tiger Heron

By Robin Becker. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. 65 pages. $15.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. Like the elegant Costa Rican wading bird of…

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

Separation of Church and State

The separation of church and state is currently the focus of much debate. The concept is increasingly challenged by religious…

George L. Alexander