Humor in Religion

The Meeting House by Mark Reigelman II, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Mass. Photo © Sarah Nichols. Read more in our introduction to this issue.

April 2019

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Features
Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry O’Regan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman

Poetry
I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
Blessing by Ken Gibble

Departments:
Among Friends, Forum, Witness, Lives of Friends, Books, Viewpoint, Milestones, Quaker Works, Classifieds, Meeting Listings

April 2019 Books

The Quakers, 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brian Drayton

April 2019 Books

Quakers, Politics, and Economics (Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 5)

Edited by David R. Ross and Michael T. Snarr. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2018. 398 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Friends…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Pamela Haines

April 2019 Books

Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times

By Kate Davies. New Society Publishers, 2018. 208 pages. $18.99/paperback or eBook. After many years working for Earth on the…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

April 2019 Books

Teach Us to Pray

By Gordon T. Smith. IVP Books, 2018. 112 pages. $15/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The first question is “Why?” Why do we need…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Paul Buckley

April 2019 Books

The Prayer Game

Created by Jennifer Kavanagh, designed by Brian Homer. Self-published, 2018. Deck of 55 cards. £13.30/deck sent to North America (about…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Viewpoint

Pacifism Revisited

By avoiding pacifism in the twentieth century, we skirted opportunities to unlearn racism. Katherine HawkerSelf

Edward Draper Baker

Baker—Edward Draper Baker, 68, on October 29, 2017, at home in Ashaway, R.I., after a valiant five-year struggle with cancer.…

Allan Brick

Brick—Allan Brick, 89, on August 24, 2018, at Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, Pa. Allan was born on November 7,…

Margaret Bender Brick

Brick—Margaret Bender Brick, 90, on December 24, 2018, at Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, Pa. Peggy was born on July…

Helen Jane Finney File

Helen Jane Finney File

Andrew Lee March

March—Andrew Lee March, 85, of Lakewood, Colo., on July 15, 2018, from Alzheimer’s disease. Andy was born on October 14,…

Nora Ruth Roberts

Roberts—Nora Ruth Roberts, 76, on December 26, 2018, in New York, N.Y. Nora was born on April 19, 1942, in…
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