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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

Leadings of the Spirit

American and South African activists bring election monitoring to Cape Town suburbs.

Rommel Roberts, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth

And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality

By Mark Segal. Open Lens, an imprint of Akashic Books, 2015. 320 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Just how bad was…

<h4><b>Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould</b></h4>

A Talk with Jeffrey Eugenides

How did Friends become a plot device in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's latest novel?

Signe Wilkinson

Books February 2015

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Quaker Roots and Branches AND The One Thing Needful

Quaker Roots and Branches By John Lampen. Christian Alternative, 2018. 64 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. The One Thing Needful: William Shakespeare,…

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century: Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8–11, 2017

Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Press, 2017. 235 pages. $11.95/Paperback. In the interest of full disclosure, this reviewer spent several…

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible-believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church

By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time…

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity

By Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman. Beacon Press, 2016. 181 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. Before we begin, let us pause for a…

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

Books March 2015

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