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Outside the Meetinghouse

Cover photo “church light” © TCDavis

March 2019

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Features

Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse by Yohannes “Knowledge” Johnson
What Does the Outside Say? by Brad Stocker
Faces of Addiction by Eric K. Hatch
Faithful Action on Climate Change by Lynn Fitz-Hugh
Experiments with Worship by Elizabeth Claggett-Borne
Holding Unite the Right to the Light by Debby Churchman


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After a Quote by William Penn by Maggie Hess
Most Evenings by Nathan Lipps


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Witness

El Paso Quakers on the Border Today

How Friends along the Mexican border are responding to needs. Ann Birch
News

News, March 2019

New York Quakers sue to reinstate meetings at Green Haven Prison. Staff
March 2019 Books

William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

March 2019 Books

Quakers in Bolivia: The Early History of Bolivian Friends

By Emma Condori Mamani. Publicaciones CALA, 2017. 117 pages. $20/paperback. When in 1919 Friends undertook missionary work in Bolivia, it…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

March 2019 Books

A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine

By Elizabeth Meyer. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 453), 2018. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet is an excellent explanation…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Marty Grundy

March 2019 Books

The Healing Power of Stories

By Michael Bischoff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 454), 2018. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. Why do we get cancer? While there are…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

March 2019 Books

Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

March 2019 Books

The Joy of Job: An Investigator’s Perspective on the Most Righteous Man on Earth

By Maribeth Vander Weele. Sagerity Press, 2018. 138 pages. $24.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The Epistle of James speaks about the “patience of…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

March 2019 Books

… And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year

By Michael Hudson. ISLET-Verlag Dresden, 2018. 340 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $26.95/paperback. The authors of the Bible never guessed how puzzled we…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Forrest Curo

Elisabeth Brewster Potts Brown

Brown—Elisabeth Brewster Potts Brown, 78, on July 6, 2018, of an unexpected heart attack, in her beloved summer home in…

Christopher Henry Hodgkin

Hodgkin—Christopher Henry Hodgkin, 74, on June 11, 2018, at home in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Wash. Christopher was born…

Jane Reppert Jenks Small

Small—Jane Reppert Jenks Small, 96, on August 26, 2018, at Foxdale Village in State College, Pa. Jane was born on…
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