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Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

By Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Atria Books, 2023. 240 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Conversations about identity are hard. We may…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

An Experiment in Sharing about Quaker Worship

This is a story about how the members of the Worship and Ministry Committee of Central Philadelphia Meeting experimented with a new way of helping Friends and attenders better understand Quaker worship.

Bruce Birchard

They Are Watching

[…] it into a program for adults. Both curricula cover the basics of Quakerism, including history, theology, artists, activism, and even […]

Robert Henry

Timothy Tarkelly’s Squirrel Quiche Recipe

Tarkelly’s article, “Allowable Diversions: A Friend Explores the Morality of Hunting,” appeared in the August 2023 issue of Friends Journal.…

Timothy Tarkelly

What We Owe the Future

By William MacAskill. Basic Books, 2022. 352 pages. $32/hardcover; $19.99/paperback (available in September); $18.99/eBook. What We Owe the Future introduced…

Reviewed by Judith Wright Favor

Praying in the Dark: Spirituality, Nonviolence, and the Emerging World

By Daniel O. Snyder. Cascade Books, 2022. 236 pages. $46/hardcover; $31/paperback or eBook. I needed this book. I am at…

Reviewed by Patricia McBee

Sailing for Peace

Interviews with Caroline Wildflower and Helen Jaccard.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Friends and Comrades: How Quakers Helped Russians to Survive Famine and Epidemic

By Sergei Nikitin, translated by Suzanne Eade Roberts. Quacks Books, 2022. 385 pages. $15/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Reviewing Friends and Comrades was…

Reviewed by Steve Jenkins

Why We Need More Quakers in Politics

A survey of Friends involved in the political system.

Carl Abbott and Margery Post Abbott

Big Truck, Little Island

By Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick Press, 2022. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 3–8. Through sun-splashed pages, a tugboat pulls…

Reviewed by Margaret Walden