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Poetry

If You Said She Wore Her Heart on Her Sleeve

You could say that she was the sleeve, / she was the entire shirt, and she would give it Morrow Dowdle
Poetry

Hal the Neighbor

Workers come to repair exterior steps, / siding, walkways, or deliver topsoil and mulch Stephen R. Clark
Forum

Forum, November 2024

Letters from our readers. Staff
Faith and Practice

Faith, Redemptive Grace, and Quaker Meeting for Worship

Redemption is more lifelong than the sanctifying grace of a single covered meeting, but the grace we experience in meeting… John Hickey
Bible Study

Would That All the Lord’s People Were Prophets

Introducing “Bible Study”: a new department category that invites Friends to reflect on Bible passages that have inspired or challenged… Ron Hogan
November 2024 Books

Idlewild: A Novel

By James Frankie Thomas. The Overlook Press, 2023. 400 pages. $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $16.20/eBook. Nell and Fay first speak before the…

Reviewed by Trevor Brandt

November 2024 Books

The Low Road: A Novel

By Katharine Quarmby. Unbound, 2023. 400 pages. $22.95/hardcover; $15.99/eBook. The Low Road by Katharine Quarmby, a Quaker at Hampstead Meeting…

Reviewed by Laura Barrosse-Antle

November 2024 Books

And This Shall Be My Dancing Day: A Novel

By Jennifer Kavanagh. Roundfire Books, 2023. 192 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Emma, the protagonist of And This Shall Be My Dancing…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

November 2024 Books

A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life

By Patricia M. Nesbitt and Kristin Camitta Zimet. Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 2024. 212 pages. $18/paperback. “What happens when we die?”…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

November 2024 Books

A Friend in Deed: The Life of Henry Stanley Newman

By Maggie Waldman. Orphans Publishing, 2023. 260 pages. £30 (about $39)/hardcover; $20.99/eBook. If your first reaction to this title is…

Reviewed by Martin Kelley

November 2024 Books

Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions from the Past Can Shape Our Future

By Robert Ashton. Unbound, 2024. 256 pages. $22.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. On a First-day morning in 2016, Robert Ashton sat in the…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

November 2024 Books

Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis

By Ellen Bernstein. Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024. 160 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. “The first step toward ecological repair,” advises…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

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