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Occasions for Plain Dress
Gracia Fay Ellwood lives in Ojai, Calif.
Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse, Viewpoint
The Healing Power of Stories
By Michael Bischoff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 454), 2018. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. Why do we get cancer? While there are [ā¦]
Brad Sheeks, a member of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting, is a retired hospice nurse, and with his wife, Patricia McBee, is a retired co-leader in the Couple Enrichment Program of Friends General Conference.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
ā¦ And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year
By Michael Hudson. ISLETāVerlag Dresden, 2018. 340 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $26.95/paperback. The authors of the Bible never guessed how puzzled we [ā¦]
ForrestĀ Curo is a member of San Diego (Calif.) Meeting (but currently attending La Jolla [Calif.] Meeting) and founder/editor of _Street Light _(1997ā2001), a monthly tabloid on poverty issues modelled on American Friends Service Committee's Street Spirit.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life
By ChoāNyon Kim. James Backhouse Lectures, 2018. 38 pages. $14/pamphlet; $8/eBook. The slender, intriguing pamphlet An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism [ā¦]
Bob Dixon-Kolar is an assistant professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He and his family are members of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.
Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma
By Shelly Rambo. Baylor University Press, 2017. 196 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Christianity was born in trauma, but do [ā¦]
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal (Pa.) Meeting, Western Quarter, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Edited by Paul Hawken. Penguin Books, 2017. 256 pages. $22/paperback; $13.99/eBook. Beautiful and big, with striking color photographs on every [ā¦]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Inward Power
Continuing revelation implies we are continuing from somewhere.
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 [ā¦]
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 āunlearningā and āunbelievingā make it plain that this [ā¦]
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
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April 2019
Features
Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry OāRegan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman
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I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
Blessing by Ken Gibble
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