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A Meetinghouse in Maine

A Quaker history in microcosm.

Betsy Maxfield Crofts

Sheila Dixon Leeds

Leeds—Sheila Dixon Leeds, 88, on July 8, 2022, following a stroke, at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, a Quaker retirement community in…

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B. Charlotte Schreiber

Schreiber—B. Charlotte Schreiber, 89, on July 17, 2020, peacefully, following a brief illness in Seattle, Wash. Charlotte was born on…

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Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By Michelle Cassandra Johnson. Shambhala Publications, 2021. 168 pages. $17.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. I’d guess there are Friends Journal readers who know…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

Ethel Anna Goerlich Trefsger

Trefsger—Ethel Anna Goerlich Trefsger, 91, on July 10, 2016, at her son’s home in Auburn, Maine. Ethel was born on…

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Elizabeth S. Mosley

Mosley—Elizabeth S. Mosley, 97, on July 12, 2021, in Jenkintown, Pa. Liz was born on August 11, 1923, to Helen…

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A Big Event in a Small Meeting with a Small School Under its Care

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Residential Meeting on July 18, 2001, explored the meaning of "under the care of," a phrase familiar…

JoAnn Seaver

Mary E. Starkweather-White

Starkweather-White—Mary E. Starkweather-White, 67, on July 9, 2019, all too suddenly. Mary was born on October 18, 1951, in Wilmington,…

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JoAnne Dill Burns

Burns—JoAnne Dill Burns, 80, on July 1, 2022, in Newport Beach, Calif. JoAnne was born on March 10, 1942, in…

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Struggling with (Non)violence

By Julie Marie Todd. In Media Res, 2020. 280 pages. $18.98/paperback. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know By Erica…

Reviewed by Steve Chase