2017

Features

Mystical Experience, the Bedrock of Quaker Faith

We are not passive, empty vessels hoping to be filled; we have to move toward God. Robert Atchley
Features

I Am Not a Religious Person

The literalness of religion vs. the litheness of spirituality. Sarah Pennock Neuville
Features

Ohio Yearly Meeting Gathering and Quaker Spring

A Philadelphia Friend finds spiritual renewal in fellowship with Conservative Quakers. John Andrew Gallery, with comments by Susan Smith
Poetry

Wallops Island Celestial Meeting

FJ Poetry: "Wallops Island morning launch..." George Eastburn
Online Features

New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2016

Our annual list of the top-five most read articles of the past year. Staff
Poetry

Where is Your Brother?

FJ Poetry: "She watched him die again and again, again and again all night on the all-night news..." Dudley Warman
Arts and Culture

Visual Ministry in Response to War

Review of PAFA’s World War I and American Art Signe Wilkinson
February 2017 Books

Le Flambeau School of Driving

By Peggy Senger Morrison. Unction Press, 2016. 314 pages. $15/paperback; $10/eBook. Rarely have I read a book focused on our…

Reviewed by Reviewed by William Shetter

February 2017 Books

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

By Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press, 2016. 315 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. One of the most troubling aspects of our…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2017 Books

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Bill Chapman

February 2017 Books

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (Revised and Expanded Edition)

By Adele Ahlberg Calhoun. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 352 pages. $22/paperback; $16.99/eBook. The back cover of Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s book, Spiritual…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Enlarging Our Circle of Love

By Margaret Fisher. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 440), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. A physician, organic gardener, and member of Baltimore…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

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