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Baking Bread Together

A Synagogue and a Meeting share a mission for peace.

Neal Burdick

WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging

By Lisa Lundeen. Plants and Poetry, 2023. 138 pages. $25/paperback. At first glance, WOOD-SOLACE, or a Return to Belonging seems…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By Kaitlin B. Curtice. Brazos Press, 2023. 208 pages. $22.99/hardcover or eBook. Friends can learn a lot from Indigenous peoples…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

By Claire Sarnowski with Sarah Durand. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2024. 256 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)

Edited by James W. Hood. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2016. 167 pages. $19.95/paperback. The central thread that holds together…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

Talking to Trees

On the grounds of the public school, there grows a young white pine tree. But it is not rooted in the ground; rather it springs from the fork in an old sugar maple.

Neal Burdick

An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820–1830

By Susan M. Ouellette. State University of New York Press, 2017. 380 pages. $29.95/paperback; $29.95/eBook. For ten years, 1820 through…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

By Dawn G. Marsh. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 240 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom is a…

Reviewed by Neal Burdick

The Prophecy of Mary Peisley Neale

Mary Peisley was born into a Quaker family in Ballymore, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1717. At age 27, she was…

Paul Buckley

Thoughts During a Peace Vigil

Neal S. Burdick