Tag Archives | war

Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind

By Reviewed by Ann Birch on December 1, 2018

By Cynthia Grady, illustrated by Amiko Hirao. Charlesbridge, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. When some of […]

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

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on November 1, 2018

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2018. 410 pages. $105/hardcover; $34.99/paperback; $28/eBook. This edited volume, […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Quaker Roots and Branches AND The One Thing Needful

By Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould on November 1, 2018

Quaker Roots and Branches By John Lampen. Christian Alternative, 2018. 64 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The One Thing Needful: William Shakespeare, […]

Mitchell Santine Gould lives on the Oregon coast with his camerado, Rusty. He is the leading authority on Walt Whitman's Quakerism.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity

By Reviewed by Rosalie Dance on November 1, 2018

By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness, […]

Rosalie Dance is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a sojourner at Belize City Meeting in Belize.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America

By Reviewed by Eileen Redden on November 1, 2018

By Mohammed Al Samawi. William Morrow, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Mohammed Al Samawi is the son of two Yemeni […]

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

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Donald Paul Irish

By Staff on September 1, 2018

Irish—Donald Paul Irish, 97, on April 14, 2017, in Saint Paul, Minn. Don was born on July 31, 1919, in […]

Posted in: Milestones, September 2018

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

Civility Can Be Dangerous

By Lucy Duncan on August 15, 2018

In 1934, AFSC co‐founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?

Lucy Duncan is the director of Friends Relations at the American Friends Service Committee.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, Online Features

Continue Reading · Comments { 19 }

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose

By Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson on August 1, 2018

By Paula Tarnapol Whitacre. Potomac Books, 2017. 320 pages. $32.95/hardcover or eBook. The story of Julia Wilbur’s life and work […]

Gwen Gosney Erickson is the Friends Historical Collection librarian and archivist at Guilford College and a member of Friendship Meeting in Greensboro, N.C.

Posted in: August 2018 Books, Going Viral with Quakerism, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on August 1, 2018

By Tim Crane. Harvard University Press, 2017. 224 pages. $24.95/hardcover or eBook. “I don’t believe you / You had the […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: August 2018 Books, Going Viral with Quakerism, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

By Reviewed by Dave Austin on June 1, 2018

By Helen Thorpe. Scribner, 2017. 396 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in September); $14.99/eBook. Imagine if you can that you are, […]

Dave Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world history. He is currently at work on a young adult novel about the Holocaust in France.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }