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QuakerSpeak, August 2024

Reducing violence from within.

Staff

Silent Steadfastness

Returning to the faith of my ancestors.

Cheryl Weaver

Silver Wattle Quaker Centre

[…] last June; it will run again in 2025. The Quaker Basics online course was offered again in March. Further course […]

Quaker Works

Friends Services Alliance

[…] spring workshops included transitioning from staff member to supervisor, Quakerism basics, leading from within, and navigating challenging situations. FSA is […]

Quaker Works

The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism: An Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality

[…] take on deeper meaning. Preparation for illumination includes “learning the basics of the spiritual life (which, for Christians, includes finding […]

Reviewed by Marty Grundy

Quakers in Politics

By Carl Abbott and Margery Post Abbott. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 96 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. This little book…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Tending Sacred Ground: Respectful Parenting

By Pamela Haines. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 96 pages. $12.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. As parents, we often long for straightforward…

Reviewed by Janaki Spickard Keeler

Do Quakers Believe in Heaven?

Quakers’ varying spiritual approaches to death and beliefs about the afterlife.

Staff

Dear God, Help Me Here

Prayer and healing at the end of life.

Sharlee DiMenichi

Rhetoric in Debt

By Kellie Sharp-Hoskins. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 204 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. Rhetoric in Debt opens with a morality…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines