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On the Cutting Edge: The Peace Activism of Earle Reynolds

In U.S. history, where articulating a desire for peace is too often accepted as sufficient opposition to war, one man’s…

Kristin Grabarek

On the Right Side of Harpers Ferry

Finding skeletons in our Quaker closets. PODCAST AVAILABLE.

Esther Coppock Shaw

Judith Blair Salzman

Salzman—Judith Blair Salzman, 76, on January 5, 2020, at her home in Tucson, Ariz. Judith and her twin sister, Jill,…

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Judith Wright Favor

Favor—Judith Wright Favor, 83, on December 8, 2023, of congestive heart failure, peacefully, at home in the company of her…

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Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through the Quaker Clearness Committee

By Valerie Brown. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 446), 2017. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this short pamphlet, Valerie Brown introduces readers…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

On Quakers and Pastors

By Derek Brown. Barclay Press, 2019. 370 pages. $25/paperback. Derek Brown is a professor of pastoral ministries at Barclay College…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Seven Thousand Miles to Find a New Friend

What role can Quaker education play in building bridges of understanding across the world? To answer that question, fourth grade…

Carolyn Garth

Elijah the Bodhisattva: An Interspiritual Exploration

By Malcolm David Brown. O-Books, 2024. 192 pages. $17.95/paperback; $8.99/eBook. The provocative incongruity of Malcolm David Brown’s title that joins…

Reviewed by George Schaefer

What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman

By Lerita Coleman Brown. Broadleaf Books, 2023. 213 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. Lerita Coleman Brown identifies deeply with the Black American…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age, and a Brave Wooden Boat; Mum: The Conscience, Courage, and Compassion of Barbara Reynolds

The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age, and a Brave Wooden Boat. By Jessica Reynolds Renshaw. Self-published, 2017. 278 pages. $12/paperback;…

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