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Forum, January 2025

Letter from our readers.

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Forum, December 2023

Letters from our readers.

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Slavery in Pennsylvania

Early Friends were not immune to the tragedy of slavery.

Jack H. Schick

Samsara: An Exploration of the Hidden Forces That Shape and Bind Us

By Daniel McKenzie. Mantra Books, 2022. 112 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. A quick Internet search for the word “samsara” typically leads…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

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

On Answering Terror: Responses to War and Peace after 9/11/01

Answering Terror is an anthology of articles and reflections, largely drawn from Friends Journal, that deal with Quaker reactions to…

Walter Wink

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation

By Steve Luxenberg. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 624 pages. $35/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $29.73/eBook.

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

The Joy of Job: An Investigator’s Perspective on the Most Righteous Man on Earth

By Maribeth Vander Weele. Sagerity Press, 2018. 138 pages. $24.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The Epistle of James speaks about the “patience of…

Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

Why I Left-Why I Stayed

Why I Left (Jamie K. Donaldson) – Why I Stayed (Alan Rhodes) Our rich Quaker history includes the encounter, probably…

Jamie Donaldson

Forum February 2015

Letters from our readers.

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