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Monthly worship along Fresh Pond Parkway in front of Raytheon in Cambridge, Mass. The author is seen standing. © Skip Schiel.

Experiments with Worship

By Elizabeth Claggett-Borne on March 1, 2019

Quaker worship takes to the streets.

Elizabeth Claggett-Borne enjoys biking to work, accompanying a family in sanctuary, and trying not to fidget in worship. She is grateful to be a part of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.). She teaches Exploring the Quaker Way, laughs at her hubris, and travels in the ministry.

Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By Reviewed by Judith Favor on October 1, 2018

By Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. 272 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback (available June 2019); $13.99/eBook. […]

Judith Favor, a member of Claremont (Calif.) Meeting, befriended Rosie Alfaro in 1999. Their enduring friendship powered Judith’s work with AVP and sparked her efforts to end the death penalty.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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This We Can Do: Quaker Faith in Action through the Alternatives to Violence Project

By Reviewed by Martha Baer on April 1, 2016

By Sally Herzfeld and Alternatives to Violence Project members. James Backhouse Lecture, 2015. 63 pages. $5/pamphlet. “Never doubt that a […]

Martha Baer is an AVP facilitator at the Maryland Correctional Institution–Jessup (MCI-J) and is active with Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform (MAJR). She attends Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and is an organizational development consultant at the University of Maryland.

Posted in: April 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training

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