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Quaker Book Reviews

Passion and Partings: The Dying Sayings of Early Quakers

By Jane Mace. Quacks Books, 2020. 142 pages. $19.99/paperback. Available at pendlehill.org. Most Friends are familiar with memorial minutes: the…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

August 2020 Books

William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”: Quaker Truth in Pennsylvania, 1682–1781

By James Proud. Inner Light Books, 2019. 522 pages. $50/hardcover; $35/paperback. James Proud, a retired attorney and an Episcopal priest,…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

August 2015 Books

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

By Emerson W. Baker. Oxford University Press, 2014. 398 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. Emerson W. Baker’s book begins on a surprising…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

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Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?

Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?

Thomas Hamm

From the Archives: Book Reviews of Young Adult Friends’ Picks

Out of the 14 books (and 1 blog) recommended by young adult Friends in the November 2013 issue, 5 titles…

Staff

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The Best Written Code

The evolution of Quaker books of Faith and Practice.

Thomas Hamm

Reading 50 Years of FRIENDS JOURNAL

I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…

Thomas D. Hamm

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Making History: Writing the Story of a Meeting

Writing the story of a meeting.

Sabrina Darnowsky

Favorite Writings on Simplicity

Pure Land Buddhists are devoted to the Amida Buddha, who in his compassion for the difficulties people face in achieving…

Michel Avery

Book Club

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more…

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