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2023

Features

Allowable Diversions

A Friend explores the morality of hunting. Timothy Tarkelly
Features

Who Gets to Be Safe?

Struggling to find unity on gun-free zones in a Texas meeting. Katharine Jager
Features

Benjamin Lay’s Medicine

Healing our communities from White supremacy and slavery. Lucy Duncan and Rob Peagler
Online Features

SPICES Testimonies and the Biblical Roots of Quakerism: Pointing to the Moon

SPICES testimonies and the biblical roots of Quakerism. Gene Hillman
Poetry

Morning Prayer

While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Hoeing an Apple Tree

To hoe, not only to protect fruit / but this toddler apple tree’s future Cynthia Gallaher

Glaciers (Removed)

“Glaciers” by John Kucera has been removed from the August 2023 online edition due to plagiarism. The actual author of…
Forum

Forum, August 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Service

I Came to Serve

Quakers and Alternatives to Violence in Bolivia. Magaly Quispe Yujra, with editorial support and translation from Barbara Flynn
August 2023 Books

Susanna and Alice, Quaker Rebels: The Story of Susanna Parry and Her Cousin Alice Paul

By Leslie Mulford Denis. Oxford Southern, 2022. 272 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In our twenty-first-century world, it is hard to imagine…

Reviewed by Claire Salkowski

August 2023 Books

An Invitation to Quaker Eldering: On Being Faithful to the Ministry of Spiritual Nurture among Friends

By Elaine Emily and Mary Kay Glazer. Inner Light Books, 2022. 225 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback; $10/eBook. Two hundred and fifty…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

August 2023 Books

Quaker Shaped Christianity: How the Jesus Story and the Quaker Way Fit Together

By Mark Russ. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2022. 104 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. An interview with book author Mark Russ…

Reviewed by William Shetter

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