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Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia (from the Spanish verb “querer”) is a metaphysical…

Reviewed by Valerie Brown

Quakers Reading Mystics

By Michael Birkel. Brill, 2018. 124 pages. $81/paperback or eBook; $30/article. Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2018) of Quaker Studies.

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 378 pages. $124.95/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

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Rufus Jones (sitting) with Haverford College students who took part in a training program prior to the founding of AFSC, to help prepare them for non-combatant participation in World War I. Photo courtesy of AFSC.

Being Silent

Last Sunday was another of those meetings for worship. In the first 20 minutes when the children were present no…

Chris King

AFSC and the Terrorist War

American Friends Service Committee was created in war, and it has nearly as much experience and—I would say—more wisdom in…

J. William Frost

Thomas Kelly

Thomas Kelly is the first of four activist Friends that I intend to write about in this column over the…

Brian Drayton

American Friends Service Committee after 90 Years

We seek to know where the Spirit is calling us to be in a particular place and time. —Quaker aphorism…

Francine Cheeks

Whither the Wider Quaker Fellowship?

When I took a position as Program Secretary of the Wider Quaker Fellowship (WQF) in 1998, I was only somewhat…

Vicki Hain Poorman

Facing a Fractured Quakerism

The establishment of Friends World Committee for Consultation was an attempt to mend a fractured faith. In the first four…

Thomas Hamm