2016

Features

Organizing Young Adult Friends Online

How do we reach out to younger Friends struggling to find a local community? Greg Woods
Poetry

Walnut Tree

FJ Poetry: I grew up in a bean-soup house, with cornbread breath... Carol Wills
Poetry

House Concert

FJ Poetry: Back then we were beautiful... Robin Bradford
Features

Behind the Scenes of QuakerSpeak

An interview with project director Jon Watts. Jon Watts
Reflection

Of Heartbeats and Woodblocks

Reflection: Richard Reed Parry and the art of stillness. Janet Youngdahl
November 2016 Books

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

By Jim Wallis. Brazos Press, 2016. 272 pages. $21.99/hardcover or eBook. This book is as good a summary of the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

November 2016 Books

Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right—and How We Can, Too

By George Lakey. Melville House, 2016. 304 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. If the title of this book conjures up an image…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2016 Books

Quakers and Literature (Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 3)

Edited by James W. Hood. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2016. 167 pages. $19.95/paperback. The central thread that holds together…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

November 2016 Books

A Quaker Approach to Research, and Climate, Food, and Violence

A Quaker Approach to Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment By Gray Cox, with Charles Blanchard, Geoff Garver, Keith Helmuth,…

Reviewed by Two titles reviewed by Philip Favero

November 2016 Books

Toward a Right Relationship with Finance: Debt, Interest, Growth, and Security

By Pamela Haines, Ed Dreby, David Kane, and Charles Blanchard. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 9, 2016. 126…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Tom Head

November 2016 Books

Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith

By Ruah Swennerfelt. Quaker Institute for the Future Focus Book 10, 2016. 111 pages. $15/paperback; free PDF available at quakerinstitute.org.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

November 2016 Books

Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change

By Stephen A. Jurovics. Morehouse Publishing, 2016. 155 pages. $18/paperback; $16/eBook. Ever since Evangelical Protestants rediscovered that the world is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rob Pierson

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