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2021

Online Features

The Soularium

Cultivating Inner Peace and Kindness Gunilla Norris
Poetry

Way Will Open

Way will open.As we learn to live with this pandemic.Our hearts broken.Our vulnerability exposed. Grief,   Anger,     Sadness, Me, myself and IWho am I?Within… Susan Greenler Stoughton, Wis.
Poetry

The Garden of COVID

In your garden, getting lostin lilac coneflowers, minglingwith the bees and hummers,your grin another bloom. I move out of the… Caroline Johnson
Poetry

Distance from the Storm

Clean mask in hand, I stand and look across the yard.Warren works the garden, scratching down a dusty row.From a… David Milley
Poetry

Three Poems

Test Results You’re negative.Are you sure?I’m positive. normalcy in chaos hearing her harping on all that’s changedsince this virus struckmakes me… Carl "Papa" Palmer
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Forum, March 2021

Letters from our readers. Staff
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Stories from Arch Street

Volunteer guides and greeters from the Arch Street Meetinghouse share stories that have inspired and entertained them. Jackie Zemaitis
March 2021 Books

Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

March 2021 Books

On Quakers and Pastors

By Derek Brown. Barclay Press, 2019. 370 pages. $25/paperback. Derek Brown is a professor of pastoral ministries at Barclay College…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

March 2021 Books

Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

By Drew Lawson. Inner Light Books, 2020. 158 pages. $30/hardcover; $20/paperback; $10/eBook. The subtitle of Movings of Divine Love is…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

March 2021 Books

Praying the Psalms with Beads: A Book of Daily Prayers

By Nan Lewis Doerr. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020. 223 pages. $15/paperback or eBook. Nan Lewis Doerr, an Episcopal…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

March 2021 Books

The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters

By Mark Nepo. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2020. 288 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. In developing his soul, philosopher and poet Mark Nepo…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

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