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Spiritual Simplicity
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass. in 2015ā16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
My Year of Living Eschatologically
Awareness of end times comes to a Friend diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Muriel (Mickey) Edgerton is a lifelong Friend, having grown up in the Midwest in Friends United Meeting pastoral worship. She is a graduate of Earlham School of Religion and has been a hospice chaplain for the past 25 years. A 60-year member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting, she is a 15-year resident of Foulkeways at Gwynedd.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Why I Am a Pacifist
By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. If the pilgrimās path is never easy, how does [ā¦]
Jerry Mizell Williams is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
By John Shelby Spong. HarperOne, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Many Friends acknowledge the Christian roots of the Religious [ā¦]
Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
Meeting for Viewing: How QuakerSpeak Deepens Our Spirituality
How QuakerSpeak deepens our spirituality.
Krista Barnard began worshiping with Friends 40 years ago. She is a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting and clerk of its Welcoming Committee. In addition to hosting after-worship discussions, she leads womenās Bible study, practices qi gong, and volunteers as a docent at the zoo.
Posted in: Features, QuakerSpeak at Five
Muslim? Quaker? Speak!
Becoming a visible Friend through a QuakerSpeak appearance.
Naveed Moeed is a British Pakistani who, after living in Europe and the Middle East, has settled in North Carolina. A member of Chapel Hill (N.C.) Meeting, he also attends a local mosque and serves as meeting liaison to groups working against racism and Islamophobia. Professionally he has worked in IT, but is currently a budding actor and photographer.
Posted in: Features, QuakerSpeak at Five
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Spiritual Simplicity by Andrew Huff
My Year of Living Eschatologically by Muriel Edgerton
Selling Out to Niceness by Ann Jerome
A Quaker Schoolās Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Erik Hanson
Slavery in the Quaker World by Katharine Gerbner
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