Quaker Revivals

June-July, 2025

Poetry

First Meditation 

Lands, oceans of light open / the night where I learn to swim Laurinda Lind
Poetry

Knees

As children, we knelt to pray. Joints, cartilage, / bones, though new, though barely tested, Dora Dueck
Forum

Forum, June-July 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
Reflection

Breaking the Silence

What my cardiac arrest during meeting for worship taught me. Christine W. Hartmann
Faith and Practice

The Gift of Presence Is Enough

Building the beloved community invites all of us to be available and present for each other. Mary Ann Downey
June/July 2025 Books

One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

By Daniel Silliman. Eerdmans, 2024. 336 pages. $36.99/hardcover or eBook. In One Lost Soul, Daniel Silliman focuses his attention on…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

June/July 2025 Books

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Edited by Linda H. Chance, Paul B. Reagan, and Tetsuko Toda. Lexington Books, 2024. 372 pages. $125/hardcover; $45/eBook. While reading…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

June/July 2025 Books

Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873–1876)

Edited by Sabrina Darnowsky. Friends United Press, 2024. 156 pages. $22/paperback. In Sowing the Seed of Truth, Sabrina Darnowsky has…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June/July 2025 Books

Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths

By Eleanor Nesbitt. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 104 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. Eleanor Nesbitt’s Open to New Light is…

Reviewed by Diana Sacerio

June/July 2025 Books

Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

By Mirabai Starr. HarperOne, 2024. 240 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Books about integrating the Divine into our mundane lives are always…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

June/July 2025 Books

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By Zoë Schlanger. Harper, 2024. 304 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The debate in the scientific community over the question of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Beyond Chocolate: Adrian Cadbury, Life, Loss, and Leadership

By Patrick Donovan. Unicorn, 2024. 320 pages. $35.95/hardcover; $37.50/eBook. Most Friends today know about the Quaker roots of the famous…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

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