By Priya Satia. Penguin Press, 2018. 544 pages. $35/hardcover; $22/paperback (available in October); $15.99/eBook. This big book (approximately 420 pages [âŚ]
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Larry Ingle was recently awarded the Friends Historical Associationâs Kenneth Carroll Award for his article âLessons from Quaker History: Whatâs an Historian to Say about Whittaker Chambers and Clarence Pickett?â in Quaker History. A member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting, he is retired from the History Department of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
Butcher Hogs for Sale
A sign on the side of the road sparks a crisis of conscience.
Dayna Baily lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with her family, for whom plant-based cooking is both a delicious source of good nutrition and a private form of nonviolent protest against a cruel status quo. She worships at Penn Hill Meeting in Wakefield, Pa., and participates in Baltimore Yearly Meetingâs Right Relationship with Animals Working Group.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2019: Food Choices
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, 2018. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 9â12. The [âŚ]
Jerry Mizell Williams worships at Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Abbotts to the Worldâs Costello
Our introduction to the April issue on Humor in Religion.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Humor in Religion
Pacifism Revisited
By avoiding pacifism in the twentieth century, we skirted opportunities to unlearn racism.
Katherine HawkerSelf lives in St. Louis, Mo.
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Viewpoint
No Such Thing as Silence?
Silence is not always silent.
Kevin Holm-Hudson is a professor of music theory at the University of Kentucky. He attends Lexington (Ky.) Meeting.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts
Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcatâs Foster Mother
By Suzi Eszterhas. Owlkids, 2017. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 7â10. What a story! Suzi Eszterhas is a wildlife [âŚ]
Lucinda Hathaway is a member of Sarasota (Fla.) Meeting.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Wishtree
By Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso. Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 224 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8â12. How [âŚ]
Judith Favor belongs to Claremont (Calif.) Meeting. Author of the 2017 novel The Beacons of Larkin Street, she appreciates interconnectedness with nature expressed in poetic writing.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home
By Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck. Just World Books, 2016. 272 pages. $24.99/paperback. The title of this excellent memoir comes [âŚ]
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting, instructor in Brownâs Nonfiction Writing Program, and author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir.
Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land
Simple Living Beyond the Thrift Store
Finding a balance between personal and political strategies for simple living.
Philip Harnden is a member of Syracuse (N.Y.) Meeting. He has served on the board of Right Sharing of World Resources and as American Friends Service Committeeâs liaison with the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne. He wrote the Pendle Hill pamphlet Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Lifestyles
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Life at Lumakanda Friends Church by David Zarembka
Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House by Kumah Drah
Leadings of the Spirit by Rommel Roberts, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth
Empowering Women against Genderâbased Violence by Parfaite Ntahuba
The Place of Godâs Own Choosing by Eden Grace
Quaker Christianity in Kenya by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
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Quaker Silence in Community by Pat Meehan
Spelunking: What My Father Taught Me About the Light by Geoff Knowlton
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