A Young Friends Bookshelf

This month’s reviews feature books for younger Friends.

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Full Access

November Full Issue Access

FJ Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

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The Silent Spaces That Speak Volumes

An introduction to the November issue.

Gabriel Ehri

Forum November 2017

Letters from readers.

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Viewpoint

Terrorism and Not Being Afraid

Letting go of our fears and finding genuine peace.

Robert Griswold

Features

The Transformation of a Small Quaker Library

Bringing a new sense of purpose to an underused meeting library.

Ruth McNeill

Features

Meeting with Friends in an Old Library

A visitor settles down at the library table at Beacon Hills Friends House.

Sheilah Hill

Interviews

Interview with Friends Journal’s Book Review Editor

An interview with our Books editor Karie Firoozmand.

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Interviews

Interview with Friends Journal’s Assistant Book Review Editor

We talk with the editor of our children's book reviews.

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Features

Library as Metaphor

A 180-year-old Quaker library begins a new chapter.

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Poetry

Sunday Morning Whiteout

FJ Poetry: All night falling snow, a trackless silence…

Franchot Ballinger

Poetry

Vigil

FJ Poetry: The hospice nurse was shaving his slack jaw when we arrived…

Tina Schumann

Online Features

Co-curricular Learning in the Quaker and Special Collections

A look behind the scenes at Haverford Library Quaker and Special Collections.

Mary Crauderueff

Online Features

Escaping the Dusty Bookcase

Queries for Friends to consider as they discern how to maintain a meeting library.

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Online Features

Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances?

Information is coming to us in different ways than it did in the first 350 years of Quaker history.

Carol Kitchen

Online Features

Crostini with Olive Tapenade… and Tea

Friends find a tasty way to raise funds for the meeting library.

Ruthie Tippin

Mary Linda McKinney on The Body

What a great last line, Nichole. This has the uneasy ambiguity of a Shirley Jackson story…with…
Susan on What Is Actually There

Wow! Profound. Truth captured with a layering effect: Mom, the old man, the snake, the meeting,…
Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…