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News, March 2017

[…] library website: credo.library.umass.edu. Quaker gives invocation at Pennsylvania State Senate John Marquette and Senator Lisa M. Boscola. Photo courtesy of […]

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Milestones August 2015

[…] Switzerland, Israel, Mexico, and Tanzania; and helped to create the John Woolman School, where peace studies, nonviolence, sustainability, and social […]

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Flowers for Sarajevo

By John McCutcheon, illustrated by Kristy Caldwell. Peachtree Publishers, 2017. 32 pages (plus audio CD). $19.95/hardcover and CD; $6.95/CD only. […]

Reviewed by Dave Austin

Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love: Four Essentials for the Abundant Life

[…] asking: Am I doing this out of love? or, in John Woolman’s language, is love the first motion? How do […]

Reviewed by Rob Pierson.

Addressing the Differences Among Friends

[…] point: 1 Kings 19:11-13; Psalm 43:3; Matthew 3:11; Mark 13:11; John 1:1-14; John 14:15-21; John 16:12-15; Acts 26:23; 2 Corinthians […]

Howie Baker

Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill

[…] 23-acre bucolic arboretum, was a sapling in 1680 when Quaker John Sharpless purchased the 1,040-acre tract that included the land […]

Reviewed by Valerie Brown

Milestones May 2013

[…] 3, 1945, in New York City, to Kathryn Hardin and John Colman Mott, and grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., and […]

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A Seeker’s Theology: Christianity Reinterpreted as Mysticism

By John G. Macort. Self-published, 2016. 231 pages. $9.50/paperback. Buy from QuakerBooks John Macort, formerly an Episcopalian priest but long […]

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Quaker Works October 2017

[…] meetings gathered to celebrate the theme Vivir La Paz—Living Peace (John 16:33). Highlights included three mornings of semi-programmed worship with […]

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Reflections and a Welcome

[…] Melendez’s "To Friends: A Call to Duty" (p. 18) and John Mandala’s "Service: Prisoners Doing Ministry" (p. 20). I imagine […]

Susan Corson-Finnerty