Brian Drayton in Friends Journal

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On Living with a Concern for Gospel Ministry (Second Edition)

By Reviewed by Max L. Carter on March 1, 2020

By Brian Drayton. QuakerPress of Friends General Conference, 2019. 224 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook.

Max L. Carter is a member of New Garden Meeting in Greensboro, N.C., and the retired William R. Rogers director of Friends Center and Quaker studies at Guilford College.

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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on August 1, 2016

By Brian Drayton and William P. Taber Jr. Tract Association of Friends, 2016. 180 pages. $20/hardcover. Late in the fourth […]

Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quaker history, faith, and practice. His most recent book is The Essential Elias Hicks.

Posted in: August 2016 Books, August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Quaker Book Reviews

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Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets

By Reviewed by Marty Grundy on February 1, 2019

By Margery Post Abbott. Inner Light Books, 2018. 478 pages. $45/hardcover; $30/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Margery Post Abbott’s latest book presents Friends […]

Marty Grundy is now a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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A Word from the Lost: Remarks on James Nayler’s Love to the Lost and a Hand Held Forth to the Helpless to Lead Out of the Dark

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on March 1, 2020

By David Lewis. Inner Light Books, 2019. 276 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback; $12.50/eBook.

Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: March 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, Unnamed Quaker Creeds

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Quakers Reading Mystics

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on January 1, 2020

By Michael Birkel. Brill, 2018. 124 pages. $81/paperback or eBook; $30/article. Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2018) of Quaker Studies.

Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews

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The Threshold of Light

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on October 1, 2019

By Michael S. Glaser. Bright Hill Press. 2019. 54 pages. $10/paperback.

Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H) Meeting.

Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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The Quakers, 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on April 1, 2019

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: April 2019 Books, Humor in Religion, Quaker Book Reviews

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Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on February 1, 2019

By Elizabeth A. Johnson. Orbis Books, 2018. 256 pages. $28/hardcover; $26/paperback; $22.50/eBook. “The creation waits eagerly for the children of […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on November 1, 2018

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 410 pages. $105/hardcover; $34.99/paperback; $28/eBook. This edited volume, […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on October 1, 2018

By John Rees. Verso, 2016. 512 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Some Friends hold that the first generation of Quakers belong […]