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New York Yearly Meeting adopts yearly meeting membership

  ew York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) approved “at large membership” (membership through the yearly meeting instead of through a local…

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This Tilted World Is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems, 1962-2020

By Henry Taylor. LSU Press, 2020. 216 pages. $50/hardcover; $29.95/paperback or eBook. The publication of a collection of new and…

Reviewed by Michael S. Glaser

Library as Metaphor

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

Gwen Gosney Erickson

Friends Journal 1958 coverage of the Golden Rule

In 1958, Friends Journal was a weekly publication and published frequent updates about the status of the Golden Rule.

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Rediscovering Quakerism’s Liberal Religious Roots

Revisiting our spiritual tradition to find common ground in witness and service.

Isaac Barnes May

Books March 2015

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Learning from Sarah Douglass

In 1833, Sarah Mapps Douglass, an African American educator, moved from her home in Philadelphia to New York City to…

Margaret Hope Bacon

The Little Museum that Could: Documenting My ‘Neighbors’ Fate-and My Own

In a train from Prague to Ostrava, spring 1992: Navigating his high-school German and my miserable Czech, the well-dressed business…

Michael Luick-Thrams

Books February 2014

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI By Betty Medsger. Knopf, 2014. 608 pages. $29.95/hardcover. Reviewed by…

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The Quakers, 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton