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Looking at the Stars: Two Quaker Women Astronomers

Each summer when I was a little girl, my grand-mother’s cousin, Marjorie Williams, and her father would visit our family.…

Marjorie Pickett Xavier

Marjorie Ellen Nelson Perisho

Nelson—Marjorie Ellen Nelson Perisho, 83, on December 29, 2022, of a stroke, in State College, Pa. Marjorie was born on…

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November 2022 Book Reviews

The Atheist’s Guide to Quaker Process: Spirit-Led Decisions for the Secular

By Selden W. Smith. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 472), 2021. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet or eBook. Friend Selden Smith has written…

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

Books, August 2013

A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles By Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrated by Wietske Vriezen. Plum Blossom Books, 2012.…

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The Quaker Stewards of Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest

Testimony in practice.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller

In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis…

Ann Walton Sieber

October 2021 Books

Intimations: Six Essays

By Zadie Smith. Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $10.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Quaker Book Reviews

Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers

By Amos Smith. Anamchara Books, 2023. 360 pages. $24.99/paperback; $7.99/eBook. For some Christians, a central teaching of the New Testament…

Reviewed by Elizabeth Dale

August 2018 Books

The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2017. 190 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. James Bryan Smith is a “magnificent” writer; that is,…

Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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