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Martha Perry Gwyn

Gwyn—Martha Perry Gwyn, 96, on September 5, 2020, following a short battle with COVID-19 at the Carol Woods Retirement Home…

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February 2018 Books

The Call to Radical Faithfulness: Covenant in Quaker Experience

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2017, 104 pages. $10/Paperback; $5/eBook. In this inspired collection of short essays, sermons, and half-hour…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia (from the Spanish verb “querer”) is a metaphysical…

Reviewed by Valerie Brown

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A Sustainable Life: Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation

By Douglas Gwyn. QuakerPress of FGC, 2014. 166 pages. $14.95/paperback; $6.50/eBook. If you’re expecting that A Sustainable Life is just another…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Books January 2015

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December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier

By Teri Kanefield. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016. 64 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. This is a…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2015 Books

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Books August 2014

Book reviews of "But Who Do You Say That I Am?" by Douglas Gwyn, "Gathering the Silence" by Eileen Kinch and "Home Ground" by Jeanne Lohmann, "From Encounter to Ministry," edited by Nancy Thomas, "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" by Paul Kivel, "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King, and "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Sujata Massey.

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