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Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.
Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and has served on the Board of Trustees for Friends Publishing Corporation, publisher of Friends Journal.
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.
David P. Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world and Holocaust history.
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Phil Favero is a member of Agate Passage Meeting in Washington State. He is a Montana native, a former member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, a retired economist, and a longtime supporter of Friends’ work to right our relationship with the natural world.
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The Tiny Journalist
By Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. 128 pages. $24/hardcover; $17/paperback; $9.99/eBook.
Michael S. Glaser is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 to 2009.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsRenate Frey
Frey—Renate Frey, 77, on May 5, 2019, in Doylestown, Pa., peacefully, after enduring three years of Alzheimer’s disease with grace. […]
Posted in: Gambling, Milestones
Life at Lumakanda Friends Church
An American Friend looks at the strong community at his Kenyan church.
David Zarembka is a Quaker peace activist in Eastern Africa. Since 2007, he has lived in Lumakanda, a small town in western Kenya, with his Kenyan wife, Gladys Kamonya. David writes a weekly blog, Reports from Kenya, on current happenings in East Africa. To sign up, contact him at [email protected]
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
The Forgotten Gospel of Jesus
By Charles W. Heavilin. Christian Faith Publishing, 2018. 118 pages. $13.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook.
Max L. Carter is a member of New Garden Meeting in Greensboro, N.C., and the retired William R. Rogers director of Friends Center and Quaker studies at Guilford College.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Our Child of the Stars
By Stephen Cox. Jo Fletcher Books, 2019. 496 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.92/paperback; $3.99/eBook.
Rausie Hobson is a member of Rocky River Meeting in Siler City, N.C., Friends Church of North Carolina. She is a retired ESL teacher and public librarian, a member of Quakers Uniting in Publications, and was publications board clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM) for many years.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsMay Mansoor Munn
Munn—May Mansoor Munn, 83, on August 18, 2018, in Houston, Tex., after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. May was […]
Posted in: Friends in Africa, Milestones
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