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Charlottesville Quakers and the Ongoing Stand against White Nationalists

Quakers can learn to be braver and more outspoken.

Isaac Barnes May

Features

Rediscovering Quakerism’s Liberal Religious Roots

Revisiting our spiritual tradition to find common ground in witness and service.

Isaac Barnes May

Features

The Prophetic and the Pragmatic in Politics

We are in good company as we fumble and grope to find our way in politics.

Isaac Barnes May

Forum November 2017

Letters from readers.

Staff

The Christiana Resistance

In the early morning hours of September 11, 1851—ten years before the Civil War and exactly 150 years to the…

Brenda Walker Beadenkopf

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

January 2021 Books

American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country

By Jack Jenkins. HarperOne, 2020. 352 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. In the publication of books on the religious right, there is…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

March 2019 Books

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

June/July 2020 Books

The Following of Jesus: A Reply to The Imitation of Christ

By Leonardo Boff, translated by Dinah Livingstone. Orbis Books, 2019. 144 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook.

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

January 2019 Books

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May