By Michael Kazin. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 378 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (January 2018); $14.99/eBook. This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary […]
Tag Archives | Europe
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918
Dave Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world history.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries
The Advantage of History: An Interview with Timothy Snyder
Friends Journal interviews the author of the best-selling book on resisting the rise of American authoritarianism.
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of works of European history, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. He appears regularly in both Europe and the United States as a commentator on politics and history. With the recent publication of On Tyranny, he has been engaged in public work in American civics. His next book, The Origins of Unfreedom, will be published in April 2018.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Conscience, Online Features
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights
By Steve Chase. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 445), 2017. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Which side are you on? In the Israel–Palestine […]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
By Tomáš Halík, translated by Gerald Turner. University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. 189 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Tomáš Halík, a […]
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa. Kendal Meeting is a member of Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Forum, March 2017
Letters from our readers. Discussions on peak experiences, picking business partners, beliefs and practices of Friends, teaching in non-Quaker schools, […]
Posted in: Forum, Race and Anti-Racism
Falling Through the Cracks: The Children of Calais
Across the Channel from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, approximately 10,000 men, women, and children lived in […]
Kate McNally is a member of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting and works as the Forced Migration Project coördinator for the Quaker Council for European Affairs (qcea.org).
Posted in: Online Features
Not from Here: A Memoir
By Allan G. Johnson. Temple University Press, 2015. 171 pages. $24.50/hardcover or eBook. When Allan Johnson asked his dying father […]
Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Burlington (Vt.) Meeting. She currently serves as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting’s Earthcare Ministry Committee and is the author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.
Posted in: January 2017 Books, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
Mercedes Tharam Richards
Richards—Mercedes Tharam Richards, 60, on February 3, 2016, in Hershey, Pa. Mercedes was born on May 14, 1955, in Kingston, […]
Posted in: August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Milestones
Viewpoint: Toward a Better Understanding
A reader suggests that even a simple tool such as Wikipedia can help us learn more about violent extremists. 🔒 […]
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