By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor [ā¦]
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Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Isaac Barnes May is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting. He is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost [ā¦]
Isaac Barnes May is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting. He is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
GodāSoaked Life: Discovering a Kingdom Spirituality
By Chris Webb. InterVarsity Press, 2017. 192 pages. $17/paperback; $16.99/eBook. On the back cover of the book, the author, a [ā¦]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. Thanks to a long retirement, he has been blessed with nearly 25 years of contemplative time.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind
By Cynthia Grady, illustrated by Amiko Hirao. Charlesbridge, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4ā8. When some of [ā¦]
Ann Birch is a librarian and a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting.
Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote
By Susan Zimet with Todd HasakāLowy. Viking, 2018. 168 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. An accessible [ā¦]
Gwen Gosney Erickson is a librarian and archivist at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.
Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
A Reluctant Minister
Reflections on performance art among Friends.
A Bible scholar, filmmaker, playwright, activist, and actor, Peterson Toscano playfully explores the serious worlds of LGBTQ issues, religion, and climate change. After spending 17 years attempting to āde-gayā himself through gay conversion therapy, he came out a quirky, queer Quaker who recognizes the power of storytelling, petersontoscano.com.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography
By Dacia Palmerino, illustrated by Andrea Grosso Ciponte, translated by Michael G. Parker. Plough Publishing House, 2017. 160 pages. $19.95/paperback; [ā¦]
Isaac Barnes May is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting. He is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Posted in: April 2018 Books, Healing, Quaker Book Reviews
Writing Opp: Going Viral with Quakerism (due 5/14)
Whatās the Quaker message for today? How do we communicate it and how do we share it? What are some [ā¦]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's DeskWriting Opp: Creativity and the Arts (Due 3/5)
Early Friends were famously skeptical of art; modern Friends pretty much fully embrace it. Why the abrupt turnaround? What reasons [ā¦]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal:Ā [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's DeskWriting Opp: What Are Quaker Values Anyway? (Due 2/5)
If thereās a Quaker brand, then āQuaker valuesā is its most common pitch. What do we mean when we use [ā¦]
Martin Kelley is senior editor ofĀ Friends Journal. Contact:Ā [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
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April 2019
Features
Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry OāRegan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman
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I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
Blessing by Ken Gibble
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