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Deep Enough for a Lifetime of Exploration

Conversations with Quaker creative writers.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Epiphanies: Poems of Liberation, Exile, and Confinement

By Harvey Gillman. Self-published, 2021. 104 pages. $9.59/paperback (available in the United States on worldofbooks.com/en-us). Harvey Gillman, a linguist and…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

Translating Quaker Texts into Russian

Sharing Quakerism through the written word.

Natalia Zhuravenkova and Sergei Grushko

What Jesus Means to Me

As an Orthodox Jewish boy in Manchester, England, I was taught that Christianity was the religion of our oppressors. It…

Harvey Gillman

Quarantine Notes: Aphorisms on Morality and Mortality

By Yahia Lababidi. Fomite, 2023. 168 pages. $12/paperback; $4.99/eBook. Yahia Lababidi’s Quarantine Notes is a book of 520 aphorisms. According…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

Leave Nothing Behind

By Martin Willitts Jr. Fernwood Press, 2023. 106 pages. $18/paperback. The reading of poetry is essentially an act of communion.…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

Gracism: The Art of Inclusion

By David A. Anderson, revised and expanded with David Heiliger. InterVarsity Press, 2023. 192 pages. $18/paperback; $17.99/eBook. David A. Anderson…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

Seeds of Silence: Essays in Quaker Spirituality and Philosophical Theology

By R. Melvin Keiser. Christian Alternative Books, 2021. 320 pages. $22.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. I was delighted when I was asked to…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington: Scientific Genius, Philosopher, and Quaker Mystic

By Donald Vessey. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 467), 2021. 30 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. This pamphlet is a tribute to…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman

My Name Is Why

By Lemn Sissay. Canongate Books, 2020. 224 pages. $24/hardcover; $16/paperback; $13.29/eBook. “At fourteen I tattooed the initials of what I…

Reviewed by Harvey Gillman