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Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World

By Reviewed by Martin Kelley on January 1, 2020

By Katharine Gerbner. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 296 pages. $39.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
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Quakers Reading Mystics

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on January 1, 2020

By Michael Birkel. Brill, 2018. 124 pages. $81/paperback or eBook; $30/article. Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2018) of Quaker Studies.

Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
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Random God Sightings

By Compiled by Karie Firoozmand on January 1, 2020

By Kelly Hanes. Columbus Press, 2019. 196 pages. $14.95/paperback; $8.95/eBook.

Karie Firoozmand is the Book Review Editor.

Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
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On the Spirituality of Lightheartedness

By Reviewed by J. Brent Bill on November 1, 2019

By Helen Steere Horn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 456), 2019. 26 pages. $7/pamphlet.

J. Brent Bill, a member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. His newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love is slated for release this month.

Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change

By Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt on October 1, 2019

By Jim Antal. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 242 pages. $56/hardcover; $25/paperback; $23.50/eBook.

Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Middlebury (Vt.) Meeting. She and her husband live in a solar-powered house where they grow most of the vegetables and fruits they consume. They are active with the Transition Town Movement in their town and nationally.

Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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The Book of Delights: Essays

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on September 1, 2019

By Ross Gay. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. 288 pages. $23.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. I was introduced to Ross Gay when [ā€¦]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and keeps her own daily journal of joy and justice.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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How Quakerism Began

By Max Carter on August 1, 2019

First Seasonā€™s Featured Video

Posted in: QuakerSpeak at Five, Unfeatured
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Six Seasons of QuakerSpeak

By Staff on August 1, 2019

Our pick of noteworthy videos from each season.

Posted in: Features, QuakerSpeak at Five
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Forum, March 2019

By Staff on March 1, 2019

Letters from our readers

Posted in: Forum, Outside the Meetinghouse
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Burial marker for George Fox in Bunhill Fields, first placed in 1881 then moved in 1952 to the meetinghouse garden wall. "11 Month 1690" is January 1691 in the modern calendar. Ā© Matt Brown, flickr.com/londonmatt

Fox Hunt

By Cameron McWhirter on February 1, 2019

A trek to the semiā€forgotten gravesite of George Fox.

Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and previously served on the board of trustees for Friends Publishing Corporation, publisher of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Features, February 2019
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