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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

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

Books November 2014

Quaker book reviews

Staff

Books: April 2014

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

Staff

Milestones December 2012

Marriages, births and obituaries.

Staff

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

Transcribed and edited by David R. Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2024. 80 pages. $16/paperback; $8/eBook. “What Canst We Say?” The…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

Confessions of an Ex-Elder

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

Nancy Thomas

September 29

Every year on September 29 / they gather.

Nancy Thomas

Peter Wonders about Death and Other Stuff

Imagine what you would feel like / if you did not exist.

Nancy Thomas

In the Nick of Time

I was a believer. I grew up / with a firm faith in the Tooth

Nancy Thomas