Pandemic at One Year

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March 2021

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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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

March 2021 Books

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. The New Press, 2020. 320 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. Prison by Any Other Name turns…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

March 2021 Books

When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted

By Jim McCloskey, with Philip Lerman. Doubleday, 2020. 320 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $17/paperback (available June 1); $13.99/eBook. Jim McCloskey was an…

Reviewed by Beth Taylor

March 2021 Books

A Cord of Three Strands

By Christy Distler. Avodah Books, 2020. 444 pages. $14.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. “Entwined, the strands are stronger. That reminded me of us,…

Reviewed by Barbara Luetke

Mary Ann Bacon

Bacon—Mary Ann Bacon, 66, on May 4, 2020, of brain cancer at her home in Medford, N.J. Born in Chalfont,…
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