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February 2021 Books

When the Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of Ministry

By Jay Marshall. QuakerPress of FGC, 2020. 128 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Friends like to say that we are all ministers,…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Quaker Book Reviews

Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal

By Timmon Wallis. NuclearBan.US, 2019. 70 pages. Available to order (hardcopy for donation) or download (free PDF or eBook) at…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Traversing a State of Truth

Part two of "Ohio Yearly Meeting Gathering and Quaker Spring."

John Andrew Gallery, with comments by Susan Smith

February 2018 Books

Being Quaker…Where you are: A Journey Among Isolated Friends in the Northwest

By Sakre Kennington Edson. Western Friend, 2017. 244 pages. $20/paperback; $9/eBook. In the middle of an overly full week, I…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

August 2018 Books

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View

By Tim Crane. Harvard University Press, 2017. 224 pages. $24.95/hardcover or eBook. “I don’t believe you / You had the…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

April 2018 Books

A Seeker’s Theology: Christianity Reinterpreted as Mysticism

By John G. Macort. Self-published, 2016. 231 pages. $9.50/paperback. John Macort, formerly an Episcopalian priest but long acquainted with Friends…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

October 2019 Books

The Threshold of Light

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

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June/July 2017 Books

By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience

By Heidi Blocher. Apprenticeship to Jesus, 2016. 120 pages. $7 suggested donation/paperback. Heidi Blocher, a New England Friend who has…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

November 2016 Books

Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith

By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

February 2016 Books

Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought: 1647–1723

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 340 pages. $120/hardcover; $96/eBook. “An institution is the…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton