Search

God the Trickster?

Our son brought Marge Abbott’s essay "In the Belly of the Whale" to me during my stay in a South…

Carol Reilly Urner

June/July Books 2012

A Lively Faith: Reflections on Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative) By Callie Marsh. FGC QuakerPress, 2011. 102 pages. $14.95/paperback. Reviewed…

No author

Everyday Prophets

By Margery Post Abbott. James Backhouse Lecture, 2016. 52 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The two words in this title seem so…

Reviewed by Laura Jackson

Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets

By Margery Post Abbott. Inner Light Books, 2018. 478 pages. $45/hardcover; $30/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Margery Post Abbott’s latest book presents Friends…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

Quakerism: The Basics

By Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott. Routledge, 2021. 208 pages. $115/hardcover; $22.95/paperback; $24.95/eBook. Friends are blessed with a number…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Marjorie Elkinton James Leavitt

Leavitt—Marjorie Elkinton James Leavitt, 95, on January 3, 2020, peacefully, at home in Santa Cruz, Calif. Marge was born on…

Staff

Books January 2014

Reviews, featuring titles from Mark Nepo, Lester Brown, Jill Suzanne Shook, Margery Post Abbott, and Reza Aslan.

Staff

A Matter of Grace

Mary Cadbury Remembers 40 Years of Prison Worship

Carol Pauli

Why We Need More Quakers in Politics

A survey of Friends involved in the political system.

Carl Abbott and Margery Post Abbott

The Mystical Experience

Reclaiming a Neglected Quaker Tradition.

Donald W. McCormick