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May 2021 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The World’s Poorest President Speaks Out

By Yoshimi Kusaba, illustrated by Gaku Kusaba, translated by Andrew Wong. Enchanted Lion Books, 2020. 40 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Poetry

Blessing

FJ Poetry: To have lived some of my lifetime / consonant with great souls...

Ken Gibble

Poetry

Holy Night, Holy Light

FJ Poetry: It was a nocturnal birth / Without darkness.

Ken Gibble

War, Compassion, and Devonshire Pasty

  My boyhood was spent in Plymouth, on the southwestern coast of England near the little harbor from which the…

Ken Southwood

April 2020 Book Reviews

The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia

By Ken Woodley. NewSouth Books, 2019. 224 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Quakers, Restrooms, and the Learning Curve

uakers tend to follow the leading to be in the world but not of it, although last summer gave us…

Debby Churchman

Poetry

When They Ask You to Pray

When they ask you to praythey will, in most cases,bow their heads and close their eyesand wait. And they will…

Ken Gibble

May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Todos Iguales/All Equal: Un Corrido de Lemon Grove/A Ballad of Lemon Grove

By Christy Hale. Children’s Book Press, 2019. 40 pages. $19.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–11.

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Poetry

Brightened Corner

FJ Poetry: "They blew into the visitors’ room..."

Ken Gibble

January 2020 Book Reviews

The Winding Path of Transformation: Finding Yourself Between Glory and Humility

By Jeffrey Tacklind. InterVarsity Press, 2019. 192 pages. $17/paperback; $16.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen