August 2016: Quaker Spaces

August 2016: Quaker Spaces

Framing the Light
Jean Schnell
It’s the Spirit That Makes It Beautiful
Cherice Bock
Grounding Friends Presence on Capitol Hill
Beth Hendricks
A Quaker Space for Our Time
Chris Mohr
Let’s Grow Together
FJ Book Reviews

August 2016 Books

Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace

By J. Brent Bill. Abingdon Press, 2015. 208 pages. $16.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker, Brent Bill…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Diane Reynolds

August 2016 Books

Our Life Is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey

By Marcelle Martin. Inner Light Books, 2016. 230 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback; $10/eBook. Marcelle Martin, known to many for her work…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

August 2016 Books

A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement

By Brian Drayton and William P. Taber Jr. Tract Association of Friends, 2016. 180 pages. $20/hardcover. Late in the fourth…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Paul Buckley

August 2016 Books

Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity

By Steve Smith. QUPublishing, subsidiary of Quaker Universalist Fellowship, 2015. 232 pages. $22/paperback; $8.99/eBook. “Who, other than Friends, are genuinely…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Judith Favor

August 2016 Books

How to Read Job

By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 208 pages. $20/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Stop me if you have…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Douglas Bennett

August 2016 Books

Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in the Ministry

By Debbie Humphries. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #436, 2015. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. I travel in ministry quite a bit. And, for…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brent Bill

August 2016 Books

Metaphors of Meaning

By Linda Wilson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #437, 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. The spiritual life is a journey. That metaphorical statement…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

August 2016 Books

A Lesson in Hope

By Philip Gulley. Center Street, 2015. 260 pages. $24/hardcover; $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Phil Gulley’s latest novel, A Lesson in Hope, lives…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jim Hood

August 2016 Books

Delivering the Truth (A Quaker Midwife Mystery)

By Edith Maxwell. Midnight Ink, 2016. 312 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. There is a new Quaker mystery series out, and it…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

Eleanor Cecile Rothe Hammond

Hammond—Eleanor Cecile Rothe Hammond, 94, on April 30, 2016, in Round Rock, Tex. Eleanor was born on January 22, 1922,…

James Metcalfe

Metcalfe—James Metcalfe, 93, on January 8, 2016, in Portland, Ore. Jim was born on August 16, 1922, in New Bedford,…

FM Mooberry

Mooberry—FM Mooberry, 85, on December 11, 2015, at home in Kendal at Longwood in Kennett Square, Pa. FM was born…
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