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Top Ten Quaker Bestsellers 2019
From the 2019 FGC Gathering at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
Source: QuakerBooks of FGC
Posted in: Gambling
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
By Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperOne, 2019. 256 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $15.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook.
Diane Reynolds is Quaker, formerly a member of Patapsco Meeting in Ellicott City, Md., and now a member of Stillwater Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio. She is the author of The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and The American Nutcracker.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
I Think You鈥檙e Wrong (But I鈥檓 Listening): A Guide to Grace鈥怓illed Political Conversations
By Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth A. Silvers. Nelson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback (available February 2020); $9.99/eBook.
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation
By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsThomas Marvin Applegate
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Posted in: Gambling, Milestones
Enriching Our Faith
Our introduction to the October Issue.
Posted in: Among Friends, Friends in Africa
Quaker Christianity in Kenya
A Kenyan shamanistic spirituality was fertile ground for Quaker missionaries.
Stanley Chagala Ngesa, a fourth-generation Kenyan Quaker raised in the Maragoli Hills of Western Kenya in the traditions of both Christian Quakerism and the traditional spirituality of his people, is currently a postgraduate student of Quaker studies at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind. He holds an MDiv degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary and has worked as a chaplain at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif.
Posted in: Features, Friends in Africa
Becoming Fully Human: Writings on Quakers and Christian Thought
By Michael Langford. Friends of the Light, 2019. 456 pages. $19.14/paperback; $4.99/eBook.
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: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Forgotten Gospel of Jesus
By Charles W. Heavilin. Christian Faith Publishing, 2018. 118 pages. $13.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook.
Max L. Carter is a member of New Garden Meeting in Greensboro, N.C., and the retired William R. Rogers director of Friends Center and Quaker studies at Guilford College.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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