September 2019

Features
Spiritual Simplicity by Andrew Huff

My Year of Living Eschatologically by Muriel Edgerton

Selling Out to Niceness by Ann Jerome

A Quaker School’s Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Erik Hanson

Slavery in the Quaker World by Katharine Gerbner

Poetry
Sabbath by Jessie Brown
Ancestry by Anna Murphey

Departments

Among Friends, Forum, Life in the Meeting, Remembrance, News, Books, Milestones, Classifieds, Meeting Listings

Quaker Book Reviews

Why I Am a Pacifist

By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. If the pilgrim’s path is never easy, how does… Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams
Quaker Book Reviews

Trying to Be Truthful

By Chel Avery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 455), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. eflections on trying to be truthful are particularly… Reviewed by Tom Paxson
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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

By John Shelby Spong. HarperOne, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. any Friends acknowledge the Christian roots of the Religious… Reviewed by Paul Buckley
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Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision

By John Dominic Crossan and Sarah Sexton Crossan. HarperOne, 2018. 224 pages. $39.99/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. ohn Dominic Crossan, author of numerous… Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen
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So You Want to Talk About Race

By Ijeoma Oluo. Seal Press, 2018. 256 pages. $27/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $10.99/eBook. hen I attend my monthly meeting, I am one… Reviewed by Lori Patterson
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Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

By Larry Yang. Wisdom Publications, 2017. 280 pages. $17.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. ith Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community,… Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally
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The Book of Delights: Essays

By Ross Gay. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. 288 pages. $23.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. I was introduced to Ross Gay when… Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee
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When Poets Pray

By Marilyn McEntyre. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. 160 pages. $19.99/hardcover or eBook. “In prayer, as in so many… Reviewed by Judith Favor

Paula Ann Misley Laughlin

Laughlin—Paula Ann Misley Laughlin, 63, on January 8, 2018, in Quakertown, Pa. Paula was born on March 24, 1954, in…

Nan Schwab Pendergrast

Pendergrast—Nan Schwab Pendergrast, 98, on December 17, 2018, at her home in Atlanta, Ga. Nan was born on June 17,…

Barbara Cooper Rosen

Rosen—Barbara Cooper Rosen, 89, on December 19, 2018, peacefully, at home in Ashland, Ore. Barbara was born on April 10,…

Kathleen Brookhouse Schmitz-Hertzberg

Schmitz-Hertzberg—Kathleen Brookhouse Schmitz-Hertzberg, 102, on January 29, 2019, peacefully, in her sleep, in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada. Kathleen was born on…
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