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Shabbat and First Day

A Quaker Jewish path along walls and borders, both physical and spiritual.

Deborah Mayaan

A Quaker Speaks from the Black Experience

The history, role, and involvement of African Americans in the Religious Society of Friends have been subjects of long-standing interest…

James Fletcher

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April 2018 Books

Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

By Gary B. Nash. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 352 pages. $34.95/hardcover or eBook. Thorough books have been produced in…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Online Features

Friends, Peace, and Justice in Baltimore

Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.

Kathryn Munnell

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

What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?

With the election of Barack Obama in November 2008, it seemed for a time that, as a people, we might…

Susan Waltz

Nixon’s First Cover-Up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President

By H. Larry Ingle. University of Missouri Press, 2015. 288 pages. $50/hardcover or eBook. In the wake of the Watergate…

Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn

Peace and Good Behavior: A Minor Testimony?

In January 1655 a number of the most effective Quaker preachers came to the English Puritan town of Banbury, where…

Jack Ross

August 2015 Books

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

By Emerson W. Baker. Oxford University Press, 2014. 398 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. Emerson W. Baker’s book begins on a surprising…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm