June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms by Barbara Dale
What We Cannot Do Alone by Noah Merrill
Worshiping Online by Rachel Guaraldi
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge? by Thomas Hamm
Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem by Margaret Fraser
Quaker Book Reviews
On Friendsjournal.org: Web-only articles

Online Features

ePublishers of Truth

The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends. Kathleen Wooten
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Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership. Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance
Lives of Friends

The Value of Seminary

Lives of Friends: "But why go to seminary?" Ashley M. Wilcox
Online Features

It Breaks My Heart

The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend's heart Kate Pruitt
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We Need a YAF

We have a disconnect between faith and practice. Mackenzie Morgan
Online Features

Membership as Commitment and Belonging

Is membership a pragmatic arrangement or a spiritual experience? Marisa Johnson
June/July 2017 Books

A Letter from James: Essays in Quaker History

By John Lampen. The Hope Project, 2016. 107 pages. Free digital download available at hopeproject.co.uk. Many Friends will be familiar…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

June/July 2017 Books

A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

By Dawn G. Marsh. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 240 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom is a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Neal Burdick

June/July 2017 Books

By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience

By Heidi Blocher. Apprenticeship to Jesus, 2016. 120 pages. $7 suggested donation/paperback. Heidi Blocher, a New England Friend who has…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June/July 2017 Books

Gospel—The Book of Matthew: A New Translation with Commentary—Jesus Spirituality for Everyone

Translated by Thomas Moore. Skylight Paths Publishing, 2016. 224 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $19.95/eBook. The other day over lunch, I told…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rob Pierson

June/July 2017 Books

The Peace Class: A Study of Effective Cheek-turning, Neighbor-loving and Sword-to-plowshare Conversion

By Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon. Self-published, 2015. 220 pages. $12.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Both Diana Hadley and David Weatherspoon write well,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley

June/July 2017 Books

War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing

Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald. The Library of America, 2016. 850 pages. $40/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This is an ambitious book, and it…

Reviewed by Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

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