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A Quaker Call to Abolition and Creation

Facing the slavery roots of the U.S. prison system.

Lucy Duncan

Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine

By Alice Rothchild. Just World Books, 2017. 283 pages. $19.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Steve Feldman’s book Compartments, the well-known dermatologist chronicles…

Reviewed by Max Carter

Quakerism, Earth-Centered Spirituality, and the Goddess

My earliest memory is of standing at the kitchen sink in an old farmhouse in Iowa where my grandmother held…

Heather Sowers

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, 2018. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 9–12. The…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Harry Lamborn Smith

Smith—Harry Lamborn Smith, 98, on January 17, 2020, at Brittany Pointe Estates retirement community in Lansdale, Pa. Harry was born…

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Milestones May 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.

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Anne Thomas (Walker)

Thomas—Anne Thomas (Walker), 76, on September 4, 2020, at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia,…

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We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World

By Todd Hasak-Lowy. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020. 320 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. This book was…

A Perspective on the Quaker Sweat Lodge

I am responding to Chuck Fager’s recent letter on Friends General Conference and the Quaker Sweat Lodge ("Finding a Way…

Bruce Birchard

Books December 2013: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Reviews of children's books.

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