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Quaker Book Reviews

A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change

[…] insensitive comments. Politically, the backlash against the teaching of honest history in our schools is widespread. Why all this emotion […]

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Features

What We Can Say Now

[…] Journal, “Telling Stories of Our Spiritual Journey,” which describes the history of this project and proposes the following questions to […]

Mary Ann Downey

Features

When You Know Better, You Do Better

[…] Some Americans want to deny the problematic aspects of American history altogether. To acknowledge historical mistakes, they believe, is to […]

Vanessa Van Wagner

Forum

Forum, August 2021

[…] mental illness as well as his comprehensive recounting of the history of some of the Quaker witnessing is inspiring (“Quakers […]

Staff

Features

The End of the Quaker Handshake?

The history and future of one of Friends’ most ingrained practices.

Stephen W. Angell

Resources

A Quaker Antiracist Reading List for Young People

[…] books that address the crisis of racism both in America’s history and in our present-day world. Together they educate about […]

Staff

Edward Draper Baker

[…] up there with three sisters. He earned a bachelor’s in history from Juniata College and a master’s from Pennsylvania State […]

Staff

John Rudolph Kern

[…] and settled in Madison, Wis. He earned a master’s in history, and he and Lanie had a daughter and adopted […]

Staff

October 2018 Books

The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey

[…] God: A Biography, but ignores other scriptures. Karen Armstrong’s A History of God is more about the practices of the […]

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Online Features

Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

[…] need to distinguish between their meeting library and a meeting history room. Depending upon the meeting, each might be useful […]

Gwen Gosney Erickson