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The Power of Fearful Faithfulness: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy For Friends

In March, I received an invitation to this summer’s Friends General Conference Gathering in Johnstown, Pa. Pulling the flyer from…

Steve Chase

The Radical Nonviolent Witness of Jesus

Our world has never been more in need of courageous and creative alternatives to violence and injustice. Street crime, police…

Ched Myers

October 2021 Books

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

By Peniel E. Joseph. Basic Books, 2020. 384 pages. $30/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Living through a historic era is no guarantee…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

March 2019 Books

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

June/July 2015 Books

By Faith and By Love: Martin and Mabel’s Journey

By Beverly England Williams. Resource Publications, 2014. 177 pages. $23/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The story of Martin and Mabel England is a…

Reviewed by Beth Taylor

Bayard Rustin: Out from the Shadows of History

Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise. San Francisco:…

Brian Ward

Books May 2014

A Young Friends Bookshelf

Staff

Friends Journal comments on MLK Jr.’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize win

Today marks 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 14, 1964. At 35…

Staff

December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank

By Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. Creston Books, 2019. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–14.

Reviewed by David Austin

Transformation of Violence

Where does it come from—this powerful rush of emotion and adrenaline that society labels as violence? Nothing has ever been…

Harold Wilson