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Quaking Dover: How a Counterculture Took Root and Flourished in Colonial New Hampshire

By Jnana Hodson. Self-published, 2022. 252 pages. $19.95/paperback; $4.95/eBook. What was it about Dover, N.H., on the Piscataqua River separating…

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

Building Beloved Community in a Wounded World

By Jacob L. Goodson, Brad Elliott Stone, and Philip Rudolph Kuehnert. Cascade Books, 2022. 180 pages. $40/hardcover; $25/paperback or eBook.…

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Quaker Testimony: What We Witness to the World

By Paul Buckley. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 481), 2023. 34 pages. $7.50/paperback or eBook. “So you want to learn more…

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Coming Up to the Sacred Hilltop: A History of Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center

By Mary Lee Morrison. Levellers Press (Off the Common Books), 2023. 97 pages. $20/paperback. Woolman Hill, a Quaker retreat and…

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Sit Thee Here

At the meetinghouse door the visitor met an older Friend who made him welcome with a few well-chosen words. As…

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The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism: An Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

By Carl McColman. Broadleaf Books, 2023. 402 pages. $25.99/paperback; $23.99/eBook. Although there is no succinct explication of mysticism, Carl McColman…

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What Do Quakers Believe? AND Telling the Truth about God

By Geoffrey Durham. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.

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Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another

By Bruce Birchard. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 442), 2016. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. In this pamphlet, based on a 2011 plenary…

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A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine

By Elizabeth Meyer. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 453), 2018. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet is an excellent explanation…

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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…

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