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19 Friends launch a call to action in response to threats to U.S. democracy

A nationwide group of Friends launched Quaker Call to Action, “an invitation to a national dialogue on the urgent threats…

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In STEP with Quaker Testimony: Simplicity, Truth, Equality and Peace—Inspired by Margaret Fell’s Writings

By Joanna Godfrey Wood. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2021. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. As Quakers, lifelong or convinced, how…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

On the Power of Community in the Climate Movement

In the past two years—it has become indisputably apparent that change can only be fostered through collective will.

Elson Bankoff

Leave a Place Better than You Found It

Activism and Performance for Environmental Justice.

Liana Irvine

Get Down to the Rock

Addressing the Economic Roots of the Climate Emergency.

Pamela Haines

We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

Struggling with generational questions of faith.

Andrew Huff

The Duty to Resist

Bayard T. Rustin’s Pragmatic Quaker Faith

Carlos Figueroa

Prophet Against Slavery, Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel

By David Lester with Marcus Rediker and Paul Buhle. Beacon Press, 2021. 100 pages. $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Abolitionist Quaker Benjamin Lay…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. Penguin Press, 2021. 416 pages. $32/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. One of the reasons I…

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

By Ranae Lenor Hanson. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pages. $19.95/paperback or eBook. Traveling on the water taught me…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt