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A Peacemaker for Warring Nations: The Founding of the Iroquois League AND Peacemaker

By Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by David Kanietakeron Fadden. Wisdom Tales, 2021. 56 pages. $18.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Friends Journal recommends for grades…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

The Gospels: A New Translation

By Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 2021. 416 pages. $28/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Why would you want to read the Gospels? And if…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Books September 2013

Reviews of Carrie Newcomer's "Kindred Spirits: A Collection," Jim Wallis's "On God's Side," Mark Townsend's "Jesus Through Pagan Eyes," James Loney's "Captivity," and Brant Rosen's "Wrestling in the Daylight."

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Author Paul Buckley reads “Why Quakers Stopped Voting”

FJ Podcast: In 1762, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting approved a minute stating: “Liberty of conscience being . . . essential to the well-being of religious societies, we . . . therefore advise and exhort all in profession with us, to decline the acceptance of any office or station in civil government, the duties of which are inconsistent with our religious principles.”

Paul Buckley

Beyond Abolition

Elias Hicks’s five points of true restorative racial justice.

Paul Buckley

News, December 2017

News of Friends: What Canst Thou Say? Colloquium; Quaker leaders part of church delegation to the Middle East; appointment at Ramallah Friends School.

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The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America

By Paul B. Moyer. Cornell University Press, 2015. 272 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. On November 29, 1752, a daughter was born…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Books: December 2014

A Young Friends Bookshelf

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Gathering Prayer

A prayer from the FGC Gathering

Paul Buckley

Books August 2014

Book reviews of "But Who Do You Say That I Am?" by Douglas Gwyn, "Gathering the Silence" by Eileen Kinch and "Home Ground" by Jeanne Lohmann, "From Encounter to Ministry," edited by Nancy Thomas, "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" by Paul Kivel, "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King, and "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Sujata Massey.

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