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February 2018

February 2018

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“Prophetic Witness, Prophetic Action” by Diane Randall
The Trouble with ‘Strangers’” by Gerri Williams
“Can Quakerism Survive?” by Donald W. McCormick
“Breath of the Ancestors” by Paul Ricketts

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Authors: Neil Burdick, Steve Chase, Brian Drayton, Mitchell Santine Gould, Pamela Haines, Barbara Hildt, Linda Lee, Alastair McIntosh, Donald W. McCormick, Rob Pierson, Diane Randall, Paul Ricketts, Kayla Schneider-Smith, Gerri Williams, Kristin Camitta Zimit.

An interview with David Harrington Watt

Friends Journal catches up with Haverford College's new professor of Quaker studies. Aliyah Shanti
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News February 2018

News of Friends: Statement from AFSC on being banned from work in Israel; Remembering Muted Voices symposium; Quakers in Britain… Staff
February 2018 Books

Living in Dark Times

By Rex Ambler. Pendle Hill, 2017. 27 pages. $7/Pamphlet. Reading the title of this pamphlet calls up images of the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2018 Books

The Call to Radical Faithfulness: Covenant in Quaker Experience

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2017, 104 pages. $10/Paperback; $5/eBook. In this inspired collection of short essays, sermons, and half-hour…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Steve Chase

February 2018 Books

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

February 2018 Books

An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman: The Journal of Phebe Orvis, 1820–1830

By Susan M. Ouellette. State University of New York Press, 2017. 380 pages. $29.95/paperback; $29.95/eBook. For ten years, 1820 through…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Neal Burdick

February 2018 Books

Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

By Casey Tygrett. IVP Books, 2017. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Got faith? Then why question? Now there’s a question, and…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Rob Pierson

Sandra L. Smith Stoltz

Stoltz—Sandra L. Smith Stoltz, 63, on March 29, 2017, in York County, Pa. Sandy was born in York County on… Staff

Thurston Corder Hughes

Hughes—Thurston Corder Hughes, 87, on November 20, 2016. Thurston was born in 1928 in Germany under a different name, which… Staff

Warren Francis Riner

Riner— Warren Francis Riner, 96, on September 16, 2017, in Claremont, Calif. Warren was born on April 3, 1921, on… Staff

Herbert Ward Fraser

Fraser—Herbert Ward Fraser, 96, on May 2, 2017, in Richmond, Ind. Herb was born on February 23, 1921, in Andover,… Staff

Ann Cotton Levinger

Levinger—Ann Cotton Levinger, 86, on June 21, 2017, in Amherst, Mass., with her family around her, serenaded by her husband,… Staff
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