Quaker Libraries

November 2017

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Interviews with FJ’s Book Editors
Library as Metaphor by Gwen Gosney Erickson
Crostini with Olive Tapenade… and Tea by Ruthie Tippin
Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances? by Carol Kitchen
Escaping the Dusty Bookcase by Gwen Gosney Erickson
Co-Curricular Learning in the Quaker and Special Collections by Mary Crauderueff

Quaker Book Reviews
Online Features

Online Features

Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

Queries for Friends to consider as they discern how to maintain a meeting library. Gwen Gosney Erickson
Online Features

Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances?

Information is coming to us in different ways than it did in the first 350 years of Quaker history. Carol Kitchen
Online Features

Crostini with Olive Tapenade… and Tea

Friends find a tasty way to raise funds for the meeting library. Ruthie Tippin
News

News November 2017

News of the Quaker world: AFSC on North Korea, Quaker groups partner with Everence, Quaker House appointment. Staff
November 2017 Books

The Gathered Meeting

FJ Review: "It would be good if every Friend read and pondered this pamphlet, and if every Ministry and Counsel…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

November 2017 Books

Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through the Quaker Clearness Committee

By Valerie Brown. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 446), 2017. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this short pamphlet, Valerie Brown introduces readers…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

November 2017 Books

Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance

By Iris Graville. Homebound Publications, 2017. 260 pages. $17.95/paperback; eBook coming December 2017. This wonderful memoir tells the story of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Beth Taylor

November 2017 Books

Faithful Sexuality

By the Working Party on Spirituality and Sexual Ethics. New England Yearly Meeting, 2016. 68 pages. $10/pamphlet; free PDF available…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Gulielma Leonard Fager

November 2017 Books

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

By Krista Tippett. Penguin Press, 2016. 288 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. “I’m a person who listens for a living. .…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William Shetter

November 2017 Books

War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918

By Michael Kazin. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 378 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (January 2018); $14.99/eBook. This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Dave Austin

November 2017 Books

Conscientious Objection: Is This for You? Discerning a Claim and Documenting It with Selective Service

By Curt Torell. Quaker House of Fayetteville, N.C., 2016. 209 pages. $15/paperback. This book is a niche book, but Quaker…

Reviewed by Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

November 2017 Books

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Haymarket Books, 2016. 288 pages. $17.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor places the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

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