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To Imagine Change through Many Voices
Detmer Kremer is a writer and reader based out of the Netherlands and London, where he is currently attending graduate school. He is a former participant of Quaker Voluntary Service in Atlanta, and considers Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting one of his homes.
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The Light Will Rip You Up
Navigating anorexia with Simone Weil
Caroline Morris attended Portland Seminary of George Fox University, where she wrote a thesis on the connection between anorexia and asceticism, and is a current student at Earlham School of Religion.
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Genesis: Outer Space and Inner Light
Outer space and Inner Light
John A. Minahan is head of the English department at Lincoln School in Providence, R.I., where he also teaches courses in psychology and in world religions. John is the author of three books and has a doctorate in literature from Brown University. He has been a college professor, professional musician, and stay-at-home father.
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Forum November 2018
Letters from our readers and news from Friends Journal.
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Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived
Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover; […]
Max L. Carter is a retired educator, having served five different Quaker secondary schools and colleges in a 45-year career.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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.
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Our Treasure and Our Collective Heart
An introduction to the October issue on Meetings and Money.
Giving Up Something Good for Something Better
By Sister Alegria del Señor and Sister Confianza del Señor (Beth Blodgett and Prairie Naoma Cutting). Amigas Press, 2017. 362 […]
is a librarian who lives in the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin, where she and her family have a diversified farm of animals, gardens, and mushrooms.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey
By Michael Gellert. Prometheus Books, 2018. 286 pages. $26/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. As a Conservative Jew—the muddled middle between Reform and Orthodox—I […]
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting and retired as an arts critic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness
FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. / […]
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Books That Have Changed Us
November 2018 Full Issue Access
Features:
To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
Poetry:
Communion by Nancy L. Bieber
If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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