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Poetry

The Roses

"Beyond the wall the distant roses shone, / the roses not their roses, not their own..."

Paul Willis

March 2021 Books

Pendle Hill, A Place to Be and Become: Reflections on the First Ninety Years

By Doug Gwyn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 464), 2020. 32 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. As we travelled we came near a very…

Reviewed by Diana Roose

Robert L. (“Bob”) Carter

Carter—Robert L. (“Bob”) Carter, 92, on April 29, 2020, peacefully at the Parlin Hospice House in Wayland, Mass. Bob was…

Staff

Witness

Watering Our Quaker Roots

Arch Street Meeting awards a grant to St. James School, an independent Episcopal milld-school in Philadelphia.

Paul Laskow

December 2020 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World

By Todd Hasak-Lowy. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2020. 320 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. This book was…

May 2020 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf

What Miss Mitchell Saw

By Hayley Barrett, illustrated by Diana Sudyka. Beach Lane Books, 2019. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

March 2020 Book Reviews

Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught (and Why That’s Okay)

By Carl McColman. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. 160 pages. $16.99/paperback or eBook.

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Jane Braucher Volckhausen

Volckhausen—Jane Braucher Volckhausen, 100, on January 26, 2019, peacefully, at home in Boulder, Colo., surrounded by her family. Jane was…

Staff

October 2019 Books

Becoming Fully Human: Writings on Quakers and Christian Thought

By Michael Langford. Friends of the Light, 2019. 456 pages. $19.14/paperback; $4.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Paul Buckley