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Milestones August 2013

Bentman—Raymond Bentman, 87, at home with his partner, Louis DelSoldo, on March 28, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pa., of heart failure.…

Staff

Milestones, January 2016

Marriages, births, and deaths.

Staff

Intimations: Six Essays

By Zadie Smith. Penguin Books, 2020. 112 pages. $10.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. In her foreword to Intimations, written on May 31, 2020, novelist Zadie…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Our Top Five Articles for 2022

Friends Journal readers have been reconsidering our predecessors and Quakers' role in worldly affairs.

FJ Editorial Staff

The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

By James Bryan Smith. IVP Books, 2017. 190 pages. $22/hardcover; $21.99/eBook. James Bryan Smith is a “magnificent” writer; that is,…

Reviewed by Michael Willett Newheart

Harry Lamborn Smith

Smith—Harry Lamborn Smith, 98, on January 17, 2020, at Brittany Pointe Estates retirement community in Lansdale, Pa. Harry was born…

Staff

Robert Lawrence Smith

Smith—Robert Lawrence Smith, 96, on May 24, 2021, peacefully, at home in Bethesda, Md. Born in 1924, Bob was a…

Staff

Books February 2014

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI By Betty Medsger. Knopf, 2014. 608 pages. $29.95/hardcover. Reviewed by…

Various

Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity

By Steve Smith. QUPublishing, subsidiary of Quaker Universalist Fellowship, 2015. 232 pages. $22/paperback; $8.99/eBook. “Who, other than Friends, are genuinely…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

My Spiritual Journey

My spiritual journey is—to borrow a phrase from the Beatles— "a long and winding road" that led to the Religious…

Francine E. Cheeks