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A Young Friend’s Bookshelf: May 2012

Prayers for All Seasons             By Sophie Piper. Illustrated by Elena Temporin. Lion UK, 2011. 64…

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Toward More Industrial Democracy through Free Enterprise

David Richie

It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope

Story by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, poems by Hope Anita Smith, with illustrations by Lea Lyon. Henry Holt and Co., 2019. 160 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 9–13.

Reviewed by David Austin

Some Notions on Why Friends Meetings Do Not Attract Minorities (Or Much of Anyone Else for That Matter)

David H. Albert

The Peace Class: A Study of Effective Cheek-turning, Neighbor-loving and Sword-to-plowshare Conversion

By Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon. Self-published, 2015. 220 pages. $12.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Both Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon write well,…

Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley

Peaceable Kingdom in Florida

David R. Mace

John Dickinson (1732–1808): Quaker Statesman?

John Dickinson, statesman, author. In influential writings 1765-74, argued against British policies. Later, as a member of Continental Congress, 1774-76,…

Alice M. Hoffman

'War Taxes' Is a Complicated Topic

Peter Phillips’ article, "What is the Quaker Testimony on ‘War Taxes’?" (FJ Feb.), is problematic in at least four respects.…

David R. Bassett

‘So what do you do the other 51 weeks?.

David Scull

Remembering a Workcamp in Tennessee

A Friend recounts an AFSC workcamp in 1949.

George H. Kurz