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Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

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Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

Are There White People in the Bible?

Re-examining White Christianity through the lenses of race and privilege.

Tim Gee

Mary Fisher: Maidservant Turned Prophet

When Friends in Moscow recently designed a postcard to share the message of Quakerism, the 17th-century Quaker they chose to…

Marcelle Martin

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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The Lord's Prayer Revisited

In February 2005, Friends Journal published an article by Paul Buckley, "Owning the Lord’s Prayer," in which he offered his…

Alicia Parks

A Call to Friends: Faithful Living in Desperate Times

By Marty Grundy. Inner Light Books, 2020. 57 pages. $25/hardcover; $15/paperback; $10/eBook. A Call to Friends begins with a look…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Books November 2014

Quaker book reviews

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Thanks Are in Order

In the past couple of years, I have used this space in the magazine to reflect on the articles we…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

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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