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Prayer and Healing


March 2024

Poetry

Elbow Grease

He tosses his life’s work in Tuesday’s trash / and corkscrews down a hole of despair, Mike Wilson
Poetry

Hiding and Seeking

Fingering the small, smooth stones / in my bag, we ride the subway to Queens, Anne Maren-Hogan
Forum

Forum, March 2024

Letter from our readers. Staff
Quaker.org

Do Quakers Believe in Heaven?

Quakers’ varying spiritual approaches to death and beliefs about the afterlife. Staff
March 2024 Books

A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends

By Cherice Bock. Barclay Press, 2022. 114 pages. $17/paperback; $4/eBook. A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends by…

Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee

March 2024 Books

The Fundamental Principle of Quaker Spirituality: Light in the Conscience

By David Johnson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 483), 2023. 35 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Motivated by the question, “Where did…

Reviewed by Patricia McBee

March 2024 Books

Inner Healing, Inner Peace: A Quaker Perspective

By John Lampen and Diana Lampen. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 96 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Have you ever read…

Reviewed by Diane Randall

March 2024 Books

Tending Sacred Ground: Respectful Parenting

By Pamela Haines. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 96 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. As parents, we often long for straightforward…

Reviewed by Janaki Spickard Keeler

March 2024 Books

Restorative Justice: Insights and Stories from My Journey

By Howard Zehr. Walnut Street Books, 2023. 224 pages. $16.99/paperback; $8.99/eBook. This collection of essays, reflections, and photos by Howard…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

March 2024 Books

Object Essays

By Anita Bushell. Self-published, 2023. 40 pages. $18/paperback. Object Essays by Anita Bushell is a collection of ten brief personal…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

March 2024 Books

No Small Thing

By Ellen Rowland. Fernwood Press, 2023. 92 pages. $17/paperback. The story in me is redNot the red of angerbut the…

Reviewed by Catherine Wald

March 2024 Books

In Brief: The Road to Continental Heart: Befriending, and Defending, the Spirit of North America

By Steven Dale Davison. Boyle & Dalton, 2022. 326 pages. $49.99/hardcover. This coffee table-style book documents the nine-month walking sojourn…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

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