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Q&A: Rabbi Michael Lerner

[…] national bestsellers: Jewish Renewal and The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right, as well […]

Jana Llewellyn and Jane Heil

White Narcissism

[…] black man. Outraged, he thought about requesting a different room, asking himself how he could accept and room with a […]

Ron McDonald

Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us

By Timothy McMahan King. Herald Press, 2019. 272 pages. $30.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $13.99/eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks “Faith is simultaneously a journey […]

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Quakers, Culture, and the Transforming Power of Love

Four examples of nonviolence in action. Profiles of Edward Coxere, Joseph Ritter, Anthony Benezet, and Bayard Rustin.

Ellen M. Ross

Why I Left-Why I Stayed

[…] my anguished decision to leave the United States. (I’m still working on a thoughtful but abbreviated explanation for non-Friends. Right […]

Jamie Donaldson

A Significant Anniversary-And More

[…] years ago this month, on June 27, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed Friends who gathered in Cape May, New […]

Robert Dockhorn

The Secret Chord

By Geraldine Brooks. Viking, 2015. 302 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $13.99/eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks In Geraldine Brooks’s midrash of the story […]

Reviewed by Joan Dyer Liversidge

This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

[…] movements—and those who have are often ineffective. I remember once walking behind a Quaker woman and her young daughter on […]

Reviewed by Steve Chase

From the Archives: Light on Death Row

[…] and film the last 14 days in the life of Edward Earl Johnson. As the documentary proceeded, the viewer felt […]

Jan Arriens

Margaret Fell

[…] minor gentry, she was able to gain access to the King’s ear on numerous occasions—and she had the force, character, […]

Brian Drayton