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Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

Staff

Putting in the Pieces

(“meeting for worship for business”) The meeting moved forward slowly. The borders had been established, and now different ones were…

Nancy Thomas

Milestones December 2012

Marriages, births and obituaries.

Staff

Sweet Home Monteverde and A Long Walk, a Gradual Ascent: The Story of the Bolivian Friends Church in Its Context of Conflict

Directed by Robin Truesdale, produced by Bill Adler. Self-released, 2020. 56 minutes. For purchase and streaming options: sweethomemonteverde.com. By Nancy J.…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

Confessions of an Ex-Elder

"In the early days / before the great divorce / we used the dreadful language / of compliance..."

Nancy Thomas

Christmas Program

Bales of real hayclump aroundthe false manger.The choir files in,an unheavenly host,to predestined slotson stage.I spot David,my almost angelic son;our…

Nancy Thomas

Global Partnerships: Opening the Way toward Economic Justice and World Peace

On the streets of Seattle in 1999, protestors put the World Trade Organization in the spotlight and got tangled in…

Lee B. Thomas Jr.

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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Books November 2012

Our annual extensive selection of books

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