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Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on January 1, 2018

By Drew G. I. Hart. Herald Press, 2016. 157 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. A few months ago, I walked to […]

Posted in: January 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Lifestyles

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Tying Up the Cat

By Donne Hayden on December 1, 2017

Have we forgotten the reasons for our practices?

Donne Hayden is a member of Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting. In 2012, she attended the Friends World Committee for Consultation World Gathering of Friends in Kenya, where she saw the Spirit move in singing and dancing Friends.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features

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Let’s Grow Together

By Gail Whiffen on December 1, 2017

An interview with Marjorie Herbert

This interview was conducted by associate editor Gail Whiffen. Our Let’s Grow Together series profiles those who are newer to Friends. Do you know someone we should interview? Reach us at [email protected]

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Let's Grow Together

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News, December 2017

By Staff on December 1, 2017

News of Friends: What Canst Thou Say? Colloquium; Quaker leaders part of church delegation to the Middle East; appointment at […]

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, News

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The Beacons of Larkin Street

By Reviewed by Pamela Haines on November 1, 2017

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

Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible‐believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church

By Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould on October 1, 2017

By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time […]

Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Charlottesville Quakers and the Ongoing Stand against White Nationalists

By Isaac Barnes May on September 13, 2017

Quakers can learn to be braver and more outspoken.

Isaac Barnes May is a graduate of Earlham College and Harvard Divinity School. Currently he is a doctoral candidate specializing in American religious history at the University of Virginia and a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting.

Posted in: Online Features, September 2017, Uncategorized

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A Simple State of Being That Never Truly Dies

By Robert Stephen Dicken on August 1, 2017

Moving toward death is its own kind of expectant worship. 🔒

Robert Stephen Dicken is a member of First Friends Meeting in New Castle, Ind. He retired from teaching high school English in 2002. His retirement days consist of reading, writing, drawing, almost completing honey-do lists, and entertaining grandchildren.

Posted in: Features, The Art of Dying

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The Woman Who Refused to Take “No” for an Answer

By William H. Mueller on August 1, 2017

Testimonies of equality and community in early Christianity.

Bill and his wife, Pat, are members of St. Lawrence Valley Meeting in Potsdam, N.Y. (under the care of Ottawa Meeting in Ontario, Canada). He taught biological and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston from 1975 to 2004, including courses in violence prevention and spiritual aspects of health.

Posted in: Reflection, The Art of Dying

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Worshiping Online

By Rachel Guaraldi on June 1, 2017

An experiment with online programmed meeting for worship.

Rachel Guaraldi is an interfaith hospital chaplain, Quaker minister, and spiritual director. As a lifelong Quaker and member of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, Mass., Rachel has facilitated dialogue among Quaker, ecumenical, and interfaith communities for over a decade. To join and participate in the online programmed meeting for worship, please visit rachelguaraldi.com/pmfw.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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