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Going Viral with Quakerism

Features:

What People Really Want from Church and Quaker Meeting by Donald W. McCormick
The Future is Accessible by Jessica Hubbard-Bailey
Open for Liberation by Tim Gee
Tapping a Viral Energy by Robert Henry
Handling Change and Creating Communities by Steven Whinfield
The Grief and the Promised Land by Emily Provance

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Simple, Relevant, Amusing by Kathleen Wooten
Sparking a Quakerish Epidemic by Forrest Curo
What's the Point of Meeting by Mackenzie Morgan
Planning for a Trending #Quakers by Josephine Posti

Poetry:

It's What I Do by Leslie Smith Townsend
Innocence Lost by Marion Goldstein

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News August 2018

British Faith and Practice; Grave marker for abolitionists; women’s theology conference.
Poetry

Innocence Lost

FJ Poetry: Talk of an unhinged jaw sent me plummeting... Marion Goldstein
Online Features

Simple, Relevant, Amusing

How do you sum up your experience and share it in 5 words or less? Kathleen Wooten
Online Features

Sparking a Quakerish Epidemic

A society of Friends ought to be a natural for friendship with God. Forrest Curo
Online Features

What’s the Point of a Meeting?

Liberal Friends might want to consider how we can be more engaged with our physical neighborhoods. Mackenzie Morgan
August 2018 Books

The Ecology of Quaker Meeting

By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

August 2018 Books

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time: Julia Wilbur’s Struggle for Purpose

By Paula Tarnapol Whitacre. Potomac Books, 2017. 320 pages. $32.95/hardcover or eBook. The story of Julia Wilbur’s life and work…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

August 2018 Books

Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South

Edited by Juman Abujbara, Andrew Boyd, Dave Mitchell, and Marcel Taminato. OR Books, 2018. 272 pages. $22/paperback; $10/eBook. “Agitate, agitate.”…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

August 2018 Books

The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2017. 190 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. James Bryan Smith is a “magnificent” writer; that is,…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

August 2018 Books

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View

By Tim Crane. Harvard University Press, 2017. 224 pages. $24.95/hardcover or eBook. “I don’t believe you / You had the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

August 2018 Books

Because of This: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching: How to Live, Love, and Lead

By Jim Teeters. Barclay Press, 2018. 104 pages. $14/paperback. Jim Teeters’s new book, Because of This: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

August 2018 Books

Draw Your Weapons

By Sarah Sentilles. Random House, 2017. 320 pages. $28/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Assembled like a collage or impressionist painting, Draw Your Weapons…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lori Patterson

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