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Guilford College names new interim president

On February 23, the Guilford College Board of Trustees announced that James W. “Jim” Hood, would serve as interim president…

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Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Books February 2013

Reviewed this month: Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East. By Rabbi Michael Lerner. Reviewed by…

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The Mystical Experience

Reclaiming a Neglected Quaker Tradition.

Donald W. McCormick

The Ecology of Quaker Meeting

By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

Wild Birds, Fantasy, and the Possible

A memoir through books.

James W. Hood

Books February 2015

Our books column.

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Books August 2014

Book reviews of "But Who Do You Say That I Am?" by Douglas Gwyn, "Gathering the Silence" by Eileen Kinch and "Home Ground" by Jeanne Lohmann, "From Encounter to Ministry," edited by Nancy Thomas, "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" by Paul Kivel, "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King, and "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Sujata Massey.

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William Henry Matchett

Matchett—William Henry Matchett, 98, on June 21, 2021, in Olympia, Wash. Bill was born on March 5, 1923, in Chicago,…

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Books November 2013

Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the 21st Century (George Lakey); Sparkling Still: A Quaker Curriculum for First Day School or Home Use for Children 3-8 (Sparkling Still Working Group of FGC); The Last Runaway (Tracy Chevalier); The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery (Rex Ambler); The Dance Between Hope & Fear (John Calvi); Transition in Healing: A Journey (Normal Lee); Abuse Survivors: Self-Guided Retreat, A Memoir of Healing (Brutz); The Immanence Bible in Verse (John Michael Wine); Living in the Kingdom of God (John Andrew Gallery); The Gospel of Thomas: Wisdom of the Twin (Lynn C. Bauman); The Essence of George Fox's Journal (ed. by Hunter Lewis); Full Planet, Empty Plats: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (Lester R Brown); The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation (Jay Harman); Dear White America: Letters to a New Minority (Tim Wise); She Walked for All of Us: One Woman's 1971 Protest Against an Illegal War (Louse Bruyn).

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