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2016

June/July 2016 Books

Taking the Adventure: Faith and Our Kinship with Animals

By Gracia Fay Ellwood. Wipf and Stock, 2014. 217 pages. $27/paperback; $9.99/eBook. How do we reconcile our experience of divine…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret Fisher

June/July 2016 Books

Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000

By Kris Hermes. PM Press, 2015. 336 pages. $22.95/paperback. The author, a legal worker (non-lawyer) member of the National Lawyers…

Reviewed by Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

June/July 2016 Books

Hunting Pennies: Poems from an Appalachian Childhood

By Errol Hess. Wetknee Books, 2015. 69 pages. $5.99/paperback. Hunting Pennies reminded me of going for a dip in a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Catherine Wald

Kale Alonzo Williams Jr.

Williams—Kale Alonzo Williams Jr., 90, on January 7, 2016, at home in Boulder, Colo. Kale was born on August 7,…

Among Friends: Sharing Our Truths

An introduction to the May issue on Gender and Sexuality.

Viewpoint: Toward a Better Understanding

A reader suggests that even a simple tool such as Wikipedia can help us learn more about violent extremists.

Forum: May 2016

Letters from our readers.
Features

A Gospel of Quaker Sexuality

A sex-positive and queer look at our spiritual testimonies from a queer, trans, polyamorous Quaker youth worker. Kody Gabriel Hersh
Features

Gender, Sexuality, and Our Bodies

Exploring the language we use to clarify, claim, and understand identity. Lisa Graustein
Features

Affirming Ivy

How way opened at George School to support transgender students. Laura Noel
Features

Walking Cheerfully Over the World

Changing Friends school policies and learning from the leadership of children. Jen Cort
Features

A Natural Woman

Unpacking and exploring the insights and observations of a life in two genders. Chloe Schwenke
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