2023

Features

Mixed Blessings

A Friends Journal report on virtual meetings. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

Prayer

"Instead of hush / I wander looking / for the door." Karen Greenler
Poetry

A Kinder Solitude

"After a year of living alone / I have come to know me." Fred Gerhard
Poetry

March invited me outside today / To join her festival / Of dancing tree tops

March stays for thirty-one days / and yet I barely know her, / a bridge between February and April /… Edith Silvestri
Forum

Forum, March 2023

Letters from our readers Staff
March 2023 Books

Finding Yourself in Chaos: Self-Discovery for Religious Leaders in a Time of Transition

By James R. Newby and Mark Minear. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 168 pages. $65/hardcover; $22/paperback; $20/eBook. When T. Canby Jones,…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

March 2023 Books

4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community

By Drew Tucker. Fortress Press, 2022. 175 pages. $21.99/paperback; $19.99/eBook. Pastor Drew Tucker is not a Quaker, though his new…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

March 2023 Books

Quaking Dover: How a Counterculture Took Root and Flourished in Colonial New Hampshire

By Jnana Hodson. Self-published, 2022. 252 pages. $19.95/paperback; $4.95/eBook. What was it about Dover, N.H., on the Piscataqua River separating…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

March 2023 Books

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

By Robin DiAngelo. Beacon Press, 2021. 224 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

March 2023 Books

Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

By Liz Carlisle. Island Press, 2022. 200 pages. $28/hardcover; $27.99/eBook. The starting point of Healing Grounds, that regenerative agriculture is…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

March 2023 Books

Kuhkomossonuk Akonutomuwinokot: Stories Our Grandmothers Told Us

Edited by Wayne A. Newell, associate editor Robert M. Leavitt. Resolute Bear Press, 2021. 208 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $24.95/paperback; $2.99/eBook. This…

Reviewed by David Etheridge

Viewpoint

Forgiveness, Trust, and Safety

A request represents a genuine moral dilemma. Tammy Forner
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