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2022

Among Friends

What, Then, Is Faith?

Our introduction to the April issue. Gabriel Ehri
Features

Pour Out My Spirit

Embracing Friends Across Class Backgrounds Mary Linda McKinney
Features

The Duty to Resist

Bayard T. Rustin’s Pragmatic Quaker Faith Carlos Figueroa
Features

We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

Struggling with generational questions of faith. Andrew Huff
Features

The Arc of Your Soul

Writing a Quaker Spiritual Autobiography. Donald W. McCormick
Poetry

The Merry Love the Fiddle

I was 58 before I learned he used to fiddle... David Black
Poetry

Having to Live With

Sometimes it's your sleeping form next to me / your fingers curled at the nape of my neck... David Morse
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Forum, April 2022

Letters from our readers. Staff
Life in the Meeting

Mexico’s Matamoros Meeting

Members of Matamoros Meeting pray that God can use them. They are living out that prayer—and example—online and in person.  Elizabeth Saunders

The Gospels: A New Translation

By Sarah Ruden. Modern Library, 2021. 416 pages. $28/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Why would you want to read the Gospels? And if…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

April 2022 Books

Prayer of the World: A Rainbow Psalm

By Kathleen Maia Tapp. Earthword Press, 2021. 122 pages. $29.50/hardcover; $18.50/paperback; $6.99/eBook.  What if the earth, its creatures, and the…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

April 2022 Books

Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran

By Niloofar Haeri. Stanford University Press, 2020. 224 pages. $85/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook. Students and teachers of comparative religion will…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

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