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The Road We Walked

A Philadelphia Quaker meeting’s journey to reparations.

Gabbreell James

Say His Name

A White Quaker’s approach to racial justice.

Anthony Manousos

To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee’s Campaign for Open Housing

By Tracy E. K’Meyer. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 240 pages. $45/hardcover; $44.99/eBook. If you would like to know…

Reviewed by Tom Head

I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the 1960s

By Francesco Da Vinci. Sunbury Press, 2021. 294 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. I Refuse to Kill is an engaging memoir about…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

By Robert H. Mayer. NewSouth Books, 2021. 224 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. Unsung adolescent heroes of the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Forum, May 2022

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The Duty to Resist

Bayard T. Rustin’s Pragmatic Quaker Faith

Carlos Figueroa

Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2021. 160 pages. $20/paperback; $16.50/eBook. Eyes of Compassion: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh is a…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known by God

By Abraham Joshua Heschel, edited by Robert Erlewine. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $10/eBook. Abraham Joshua Heschel was…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

By Kazu Haga. Parallax Press, 2020. 296 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In our society, violence—physical or mental—is often considered the appropriate…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck