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2023

Features

Lent with the Episcopalians

A fresh introduction to Jesus. Margaret Kelso
Features

From Atheist to Friends

Welcoming a questioning agnostic. John Marsh
Poetry

Are We Old Yet?

"he asked me / and I couldn't answer him..." Nancy Thomas
Poetry

To those who repair and paint

"To those who think over / a thought they think they shouldn't think— / I love you anyway, you are… Steven Ray Smith
Poetry

Longshore Transport

"Wind and wave, storm and claw / drag and scatter and break the beach..." Gundega Korsts
Forum

Forum, February 2023

Letters from our readers. Staff
Faith and Practice

Planting the Seeds of Peace

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine a year ago, I have read numerous articles by Friends examining whether the peace… Greta Kirk Mickey
February 2023 Books

The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By Deborah Cadbury. PublicAffairs, 2022. 464 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

February 2023 Books

A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America

By Janet Moore Lindman. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 284 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. A Vivifying Spirit begins with reflections…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

February 2023 Books

Reflections from a Solitary Meeting for Worship

By John Andrew Gallery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 469), 2021. 30 pages. $7.50/paperback or eBook. During the last few years,…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

February 2023 Books

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records (Second Edition)

By Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen Berry, edited by Jana Sloan Broglin. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. 152 pages. $28.50/paperback.…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

February 2023 Books

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By Ben Rawlence. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. 320 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $20/paperback (available in the US in December 2023); $14.99/eBook. If…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

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