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Fiction

November 2025

Poetry

Coffee Hour, 1965

The ladies are staying far too long / after First Day School. We look for our  Sara Clancy
Poetry

Again

New snow falls gentle as a wish / Snow covers sallow earth Leigh Gavin Harder
Poetry

An Encounter

“And who is my neighbor?”—Luke 10:29 Anne Maren-Hogan
Forum

Forum, October 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
Faith and Practice

Stand Still Where the Strength Is

Margaret Fell for modern Friends. Shulamith Clearbridge
Bible Study

I Have Set Before You Today Life and Prosperity

New for 2025, the Bible Study column runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues. Ron Hogan
November 2025 Books

Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

By David Chanoff. University of Georgia Press, 2025. 232 pages. $32.95/hardcover; $24.95/eBook. This is not the book I expected: a…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

November 2025 Books

Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

By Jane E. Calvert. Oxford University Press, 2024. 608 pages. $35/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The Fairhill area of North Philadelphia is generally…

Reviewed by Signe Wilkinson

November 2025 Books

Awakening the Witness: Convincement and Belonging in Quaker Community

By Matt Rosen. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 492), 2025. 30 pages. $8.50/paperback; $7.50/eBook. Matt Rosen’s engaging pamphlet, Awakening the Witness,…
November 2025 Books

A Revolution in Common

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2025. 124 pages. $10/paperback. Douglas Gwyn is writing as fast as he can: the introduction…

Reviewed by Ron Hogan

November 2025 Books

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

Transcribed and edited by David R. Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2024. 80 pages. $16/paperback; $8/eBook. “What Canst We Say?” The…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

November 2025 Books

The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By Jennifer Powell McNutt. Brazos Press, 2024. 272 pages. $47.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. The “forgotten Mary” of this book is Mary…

Reviewed by Derek Brown

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