2023

January 2023 Books

Hillbilly Quaker

By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 475), 2022. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam learned as a child who was…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

January 2023 Books

“Put It Down on Paper”: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search

By Phil Primack. Loom Press, 2022. 232 pages. $20/paperback. Phil Primack takes the reader on a journey of discovery as…

Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson

January 2023 Books

Between the Listening and the Telling: How Stories Can Save Us

By Mark Yaconelli. Broadleaf Books, 2022. 206 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $22.99/eBook. For my last Friends Journal book review, of Within Our…

Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Mary Jane Gray

Gray—Mary Jane Gray, 97, on January 23, 2022, in Corvallis, Ore., where she had been living for more than 30…

Beverly J. Morgan

Morgan—Beverly J. Morgan, 91, on October 7, 2021, at her home in Westby, Wis. Beverly was born on May 31,…

Julia Ann van Ravenswaay

van Ravenswaay—Julia Ann van Ravenswaay, 89, on June 16, 2022, peacefully, in the presence of her son, after a brief…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, January 2023

What to expect at a hybrid Quaker Meeting for Worship. Staff