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August 2021

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August 2021

Among Friends

Mourning What We Missed, Keeping What We Gained

Introduction to our August issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

All Walls Come Down

Where Physics and Spirituality Overlap. David Castro
Features

Vessels of Honor in the House of God

A Letter to Samuel Fothergill. Elaine Green
Features

Confessions of a Reluctant Quaker Treasurer

A Friend finds himself in an unexpected role. Michael Sperger
Features

Coming Home to Silence

The Paradox of Quaker Worship. Stanford Searl
Features

The Mystical Experience

Reclaiming a Neglected Quaker Tradition. Donald W. McCormick
Poetry

Six Poems

Poems by recognized poet and clerk of Cuba Yearly Meeting of Friends. Jorge Luis Peña Reyes
Forum

Forum, August 2021

Letters from our readers. Staff
Life in the Meeting

Pandemic Discoveries

Reflections on the year with queries addressing unexpected joys, things we learned, and something new we tried during the year. Mary Ann Downey
Reflection

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

You never know who you’ll run into in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. George Lakey
August 2021 Books

Quakerism: The Basics

By Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott. Routledge, 2021. 208 pages. $115/hardcover; $22.95/paperback; $24.95/eBook. Friends are blessed with a number…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

August 2021 Books

My Name Is Why

By Lemn Sissay. Canongate Books, 2020. 224 pages. $24/hardcover; $16/paperback; $13.29/eBook. “At fourteen I tattooed the initials of what I…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

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