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This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty‐First Century

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on March 1, 2017

By Mark Engler and Paul Engler. Nation Books, 2016. 368 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] Toward the end of This […]

Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and the author of Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction to the Quaker Way and Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness.

Posted in: March 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Race and Anti-Racism
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Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance

By Reviewed by Richard Taylor on November 1, 2016

By Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby. Pluto Press, 2015. 211 pages. $28/paperback; $21.99/eBook. As a Quaker who believes in both […]

Richard Taylor is a member of Germantown Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., and is active in the meeting’s task force on ending mass incarceration. Dick is also developing a website designed to encourage Christian preachers to avoid anti-Judaism in their sermons and in the church’s readings from the New Testament.

Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media
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The Billboard

By Andrew Glazier on June 1, 2016

A hand‐painted sign along a highway starts a slow path to Friends.

Andrew Glazier is a nursery manager growing native California plants for restoration projects and has written for various gardening publications. He attended Visalia (Calif.) Meeting for five years before becoming a member.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker
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Strike!: The Farm Workers’ Fight for Their Rights

By Reviewed by Hina Fathima on May 1, 2015

By Larry Dane Brimner. Calkins Creek, 2014. 172 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Amidst growing unrest in […]

Hina Fathima is a former Friends Journal intern (summer 2014). She is currently a student at Haverford College, studying political science.

Posted in: Friends and Other Faiths: Friends and Other Faiths, May 2015 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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