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Inward Power
Gene Hillman is a convinced Friend, having come to Friends from the martial arts and Buddhism in 1983 in Annapolis, Md. He has taught short courses in basic Quakerism, the Quaker testimonies, and the Bible ever since he was employed at Pendle Hill in 1988. He represented Baltimore Yearly Meeting on the Friends United Meeting General Board throughout the 1990s. He and his wife, Pat, are members of Goshen (Pa.) Meeting, PhYM. Email: [email protected]
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
By Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin, illustrated by Vali Mintzi. Charlesbridge, 2018. 112 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages […]
Paul Buckley is a member of the Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived.
Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe
By Philip Gulley. Convergent Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. The words “unlearning” and “unbelieving” make it plain that this […]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. Much of the conservative Baptist Church of his childhood years now seems a remote though still treasured world.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World
By Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory. Paraclete Press, 2017. 196 pages. $16.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. How timely that this deeply personal memoir […]
Claire J. Salkowski is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. She has worked in both public and private schools and was founder, teacher, and head of Free State Montessori School. She is currently an Alternative Dispute Resolution specialist and an educational consultant.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Presence and Process: A Path Toward Transformative Faith and Inclusive Community
By Daniel P. Coleman. Barclay Press, 2017. 232 pages. $20/paperback; $6.99/eBook. At the end of his remarkable book, Daniel Coleman […]
Peter West Nutting is a member of Vassalboro (Maine) Meeting and Central Committee of Friends General Conference and regularly gives workshops on “Photography as a Contemplative Practice.”
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
What People Really Want from Church and Quaker Meeting
Looking at successful church growth models for ideas to grow our fellowship.
Donald W. McCormick, [email protected], is a member of Grass Valley Meeting in Nevada City, Calif. He is director of education for Unified Mindfulness, a company that trains mindfulness teachers. The senior editor of Friends Journal described his February article, “Can Quakerism Survive?,” as “the most talked about article in recent history.”
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
Sparking a Quakerish Epidemic
A society of Friends ought to be a natural for friendship with God.
Forrest Curo is a poet and member of San Diego (Calif.) Meeting. He ran the Aardvark Bookstore here from 1985–1998 and founded Street Light (modeled on American Friends Service Committee’s Street Spirit) in 1996. He put in a year at Pendle Hill Conference Center in 2002 in hopes of finding a spiritual handle on the intractable politics of poverty and is now retired.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
Pandora
By Victoria Turnbull. Clarion Books, 2017. 30 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Pandora, a fox, lives at a […]
Ann Birch (formerly Dee Cameron) is a librarian and a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Holistic Islam: Sufism, Transformation, and the Challenge of Our Time
By Kabir Helminski. White Cloud Press, 2017. 140 pages. $14.95/Paperback; $13.99/eBook. Kabir Edmund Helminski is a well‐known American writer on […]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He has traveled to the Muslim world several times on visits to his Arab in-law family.
Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land
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Quakers and Christianity
December 2018 Full Issue Access
Features:
The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity by Lauren Brownlee
Are We Really Christian? by Margaret Namubuya Amudavi
Inward Power by Gene Hillman
God, Jesus, Christianity, and Quakers by Jim Cain
Understanding Belief by Elizabeth Boardman
A Consideration of Metaphors by Rhiannon Grant
A Space for Doubt by Jeff Rasley
Online Features:
Quaker Christian Ways and Roots by Donne Hayden
How Am I a Christian? by Douglas C. Bennett
The White Rabbit of Quaker Theology by Christy Randazzo
Sweet Baby Jesus! by Patricia Wild
The Challenge of Quaker Christianity by Andrew Gage
Learning from John Woolman by Helene Pollock
Staying in It: Being Quaker and Radically Christian in Our Time by Marcelle Martin
Poetry:
Holy Night, Holy Light by Ken Gibble
A Chore Worth Doing by Bear Jack Gerhardt
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