Quakers Half Right
A Book Review of Keith Thomas, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
Keith Thomas, in …
Topic: Quaker history
Global Christian Direction
A Book Review of Brian Stanley, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (2019)
The book, Brian Stanley, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (2019) describes the 20 …
Complex Penn
A Book Review of Andrew Murphy, William Penn: A Life (2019)
Andrew Murphy, William Penn: A Life (2019) is the most comprehensive, candid, and readable narrative of the life…
Quakers in Revolutionary Times
A Book Review of Richard Godbeer,World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey Through the American Revolution (2019)
The title of Richard Godbeer, World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey Through the American Revolution (2019) reads a bit…
Full Quaker Voice: Women
A Book Review of Jane Donawerth and Rebecca Lush eds., Margaret Fell: Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets (2019)
The authors and editors, Jane Donawerth and Rebecca Lush, in Margaret Fell: Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets (2019) seeks to…
Quaker Embrace of Slavery
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World, (2018) by Katharine Gerbner
Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by K. Gerbner tells us the story as the book’s title reads. It is a clear, candid, full, and, as yet, uncontested, account of a history that includes…
Misnamed, but Attractive
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland - A Book Review (2020)
T. Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (2020) is accessible, well written, and a good introduction to the…
Progress Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor Weekly - A Review
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a sustained, and sustaining, presence of quality journalism, which faces all the challenges faced by other news media, but from the inside of the religious community. Their solution is a…
Quakers in Devilish History in the United States
A Book Review of Brian Regal and Frank Esposito, The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster (2018)
How do Quakers apologize for historic personal wrongs? How do Quakers learn from their historic wrongs that are part of their tradition and face similar challenges today? The new book, Brian Regal and Frank Esposito…
Pepys and Quakers
A Book Review of Margaret Willes, The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn (2017)
Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn were major chroniclers of 17 th …