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Books That Have Changed Us

November 2018: Books That Have Changed Us

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Features: To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer, The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris, Genesis by John A. Minahan, and Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken.

Poetry: Communion by Nancy L. Bieber and If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by Kat Griffith.

Departments: Among Friends, Books, Milestones, Classifieds, Meetings.

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Our Annual Books Issue!

November is book time at Friends Journal. This year's expanded issue has 16 titles. Come explore! Staff

November 2018 Full Issue Access

Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.
Among Friends

The Book You’re Looking For

Among Friends: Our introduction to the November books issue. Martin Kelley
Features

To Imagine Change through Many Voices

The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know. Detmer Kremer
Features

The Light Will Rip You Up

Navigating anorexia with Simone Weil Caroline Morris
Features

Genesis: Outer Space and Inner Light

Outer space and Inner Light John A. Minahan
Features

Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

A ninth-grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach. Robert Stephen Dicken
Poetry

Communion

FJ Poetry: "Mean cheese bread / snuggly sandwiched into bags" Nancy L. Bieber
Poetry

If I Had Grown In Some Generous Place

FJ Poetry: "If I had grown in some generous place—" Kat Griffith

Forum November 2018

Letters from our readers and news from Friends Journal.
November 2018 Books

A Gathering of Spirits: The Friends General Conferences 1896–1950

By Douglas Gwyn. QuakerPress of FGC, 2018. 316 pages. $20/paperback. Doug Gwyn is the ideal writer to tackle this project.… Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson
November 2018 Books

Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover;… Reviewed by Max L. Carter
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