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February 2019 Books

The Beauty Queen of Bonthe and Other Stories of West Africa

By Gregory A. Barnes. FriendsPress, 2018. 194 pages. $12/paperback. It was a pleasure to read some of this collection and…

Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand

October 2020 Books

In Brief: Living into the Faith: A Quaker Diary, 2007–2015

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2019. 255 pages. $10/paperback; $6.99/eBook. There will be a lot more storytelling in this…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

April 2017 Books

A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2016. 498 pages. $24.95/paperback. At the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in 1994,…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

Books June/July 2014

Book reviews.

Staff

Anne Parrish: Unsung Friend

The ministries of Quaker women who notably served the Religious Society of Friends have received well-deserved attention. In most cases,…

Gregory A. Barnes

The Willoughbys on Pacifism

Ironically, few issues have divided Quakers more than war-making and peacemaking. A favorite image of Quakers in the wider world…

Gregory A. Barnes

Lillian's Choices

A family council took place in a large Manhattan loft on December 26, 2003. George and Lillian Willoughby were discussing…

Gregory A. Barnes

Student Voices Project

Student Voices Project 2017 Participants

A full list of students who submitted this year.

Staff

February 2018 Books

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

Why Simple Living Is Not Enough

It is common practice in addressing the ecological crisis from a religious perspective to present wasteful consumerism as the crux…

Keith Helmuth