By Mohammed Al Samawi. William Morrow, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Mohammed Al Samawi is the son of two Yemeni [ā¦]
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The Fox Hunt: A Refugeeās Memoir of Coming to America
Eileen Redden worships with a worship group in Lewes, Del. As the young Friends book review editor for Friends Journal, she usually reviews books for a younger audience and appreciates this opportunity to spread her wings a bit.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Grace Kyoko Noda
NodaāGrace Kyoko Noda, 98, on March 14, 2018, at her home in Davis, Calif., peacefully. Grace was born on January [ā¦]
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Poetry
The Problem with Theology
FJ Poetry: āThe problem with theology / Is that I do not knowā š Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! [ā¦]
Giving Up Something Good for Something Better
By Sister Alegria del SeƱor and Sister Confianza del SeƱor (Beth Blodgett and Prairie Naoma Cutting). Amigas Press, 2017. 362 [ā¦]
is a librarian who lives in the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin, where she and her family have a diversified farm of animals, gardens, and mushrooms.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Diane P. Butler
ButlerāDiane P. Butler, 63, on August 2, 2017, at home in Ithaca, N.Y. Diane was born on June 4, 1954, [ā¦]
Posted in: Meetings and Money, Milestones
Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness
FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. / [ā¦]
Life in a Box
The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in 2015ā16 in Boston, Mass. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Gota de Leche
The yellowing pages of 80āyearāold AFSC relief pamphlets inspire a new sense of agency.
Camilla Meek lives in Durham, N.C., where she has attended Durham Meeting and Guilford College Meeting. She served as a director of communications for Guilford College. Meek has a BA degree in fine arts and an MBA in marketing.
Special thanks to Don Davis of the AFSC Archives.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys
Edited by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. PenickāParks. Corwin, 2018. 472 pages. $27.95/paperback or eBook. Some years [ā¦]
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and lives at Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. She is passionate about ending racism with a current emphasis on criminal justice reform.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [ā¦]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
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Books That Have Changed Us
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
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