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Byron Wilbur Bender

Bender—Byron Wilbur Bender, 90, on January 4, 2020, at Kaiser Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. Byron was born on August 14,…

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Forum, January 2021

Surveying the flat lands Joe McHugh’s recent article on senior spirituality (“East of Denver,” FJ Dec. 2020) was inspiring and…

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Robert Dolphin Jr.

Dolphin—Robert Dolphin Jr., 84, on October 19, 2019, at Friendship Village Tempe’s Health Care Center in Tempe, Ariz. Bob was…

The End of the Quaker Handshake?

The history and future of one of Friends’ most ingrained practices.

Stephen W. Angell

The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few

By Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019. 192 pages. $26.95/hardcover or eBook.

Reviewed by Pamela Haines.

My Favorite Non-Quaker Quaker, Remembering John C. Bogle

Perhaps his favorite quote was: “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

Signe Wilkinson

Genesis: Outer Space and Inner Light

Outer space and Inner Light

John A. Minahan

The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey

By Michael Gellert. Prometheus Books, 2018. 286 pages. $26/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. As a Conservative Jew—the muddled middle between Reform and Orthodox—I…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith

By Karen Wright Marsh. IVP Books, 2017. 224 pages. $20/hardcover; $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

The Beacons of Larkin Street

By Judith Favor. Apocryphile Press, 2017. 269 pages. $19.95/paperback; $3.99/eBook. When a turning point in a novel is framed by…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines