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February 2017 Books

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in…

Reviewed by Bill Chapman

Martha Jane Menk

Menk—Martha Jane Menk, 71, on August 3, 2022, peacefully, following a prolonged journey with Parkinson’s disease, in Richmond, Va. Martha…

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The Life of George Fox as a Model for Meeting for Worship

Every Friends meeting for worship bears the imprint of the life of Quakerism’s founder, George Fox. The meeting begins as…

John Pitts Corry

Donald William Mott

Mott—Donald William Mott, 96, on December 18, 2020, of COVID-19, at the Village, a WesleyLife retirement community in Indianola, Iowa.…

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March 2021 Books

Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

Allan Brick

Brick—Allan Brick, 89, on August 24, 2018, at Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square, Pa. Allan was born on November 7,…

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Mary Eleanor Sohler

Sohler—Mary Eleanor Sohler, 89, on February 15, 2022, at Virtua Mount Holly Hospital in Mount Holly, N.J. Mary was born…

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November 2021 Books

The Anatomy of Grief

By Dorothy P. Holinger. Yale University Press, 2020. 328 pages. $27.50/hardcover or eBook. I can’t believe it is one’s first…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

Looking for the bridge builders

A quiet phenomenon has been gathering steam in the midwest over the last few years: Quaker women, getting together across…

Gladys Tiffany

William Sims

Sims—William Sims, 82, on June 26, 2015, in Syracuse, N.Y. Bill was born on September 26, 1933, in Yazoo City,…

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