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The Call to Radical Faithfulness: Covenant in Quaker Experience

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2017, 104 pages. $10/Paperback; $5/eBook. In this inspired collection of short essays, sermons, and half-hour…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Books August 2014

Book reviews of "But Who Do You Say That I Am?" by Douglas Gwyn, "Gathering the Silence" by Eileen Kinch and "Home Ground" by Jeanne Lohmann, "From Encounter to Ministry," edited by Nancy Thomas, "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" by Paul Kivel, "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King, and "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Sujata Massey.

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Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice

By George Lakey. Seven Stories Press, 2022. 424 pages. $22.95/paperback; $15.99/eBook (pre-order prices; available November 15). George Lakey’s memoir is…

Reviewed by Doug Gwyn

Early Friends and Atonement

Enlightened to serve a living God.

Doug Gwyn

A Gathering of Spirits: The Friends General Conferences 1896–1950

By Douglas Gwyn. QuakerPress of FGC, 2018. 316 pages. $20/paperback. Doug Gwyn is the ideal writer to tackle this project.…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Quakers and Capitalism

At the World Conference of Friends held at Guilford College in North Carolina in 1967, some young Friends crossed over…

Steven Dale Davison

The Anti-War: Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People

By Douglas Gwyn. Inner Light Books, 2016. 208 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback. Doug Gwyn may have given more thought to the…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several…

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

Allowing Ourselves to Be Bold

The experience of Earth Quaker Action Team.

George Lakey