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Barbara Birch: An Intimate, Indwelling Spiritual Presence

A Quaker author chat. Barbara Birch’s “The True Last Supper” appears in the June/July 2024 issue of Friends Journal. The…

Martin Kelley

Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy

By Barbara Birch. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2025. 112 pages. $12.95/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Lectio divina, Latin for “divine reading,” is…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Forging Beloved Community with Friends: A Journey through the Refiner’s Fire

By Bridget Moix. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 488), 2024. 24 pages. $7.50/paperback. Author Bridget Moix is the general secretary of…

Reviewed by Barbara Birch

Forum, September 2025

Letters from our readers.

Staff

A Fine Union of Serenity and Adventure

How Rufus Jones recovered his lost radiance.

Barbara Birch

A Joyful Abandon to Love

On listening to the inner voice.

Barbara Birch

The True Last Supper

George Fox’s mystical feast of love.

Barbara Birch

Not By Bread Alone

Experiments in fasting and body prayer.

Barbara Birch

The Life and Conduct of Elise Boulding

Peace Activist, Social Scientist, Global Citizen

Barbara M. Birch

My Spiritual Life, with Food

I am a weighty Friend in the literal sense of “weighing a lot” but definitely not in the metaphorical sense…

Barbara Birch