A passage from John Woolmanâs Journal gives a Friend the language for describing her new sense of empowerment.
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Learning from John Woolman, as a Christian Quaker
Helene Pollock has participated in all branches of Friends during her 40 years of association with Friends. Her primary Quaker community at this time is the extended worship community that meets in the Philadelphia area. She is the former director of Quaker Affairs at Haverford College.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World
By Caroline Paul, illustrated by Lauren Tamaki. Bloomsbury Childrenâs Books, 2018. 128 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.59/eBook. Recommended for ages 9 and [âŚ]
Sandy and Tom Farley are members of Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting, storytellers, and coauthors of Earthcare for Children.
Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity
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.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features
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; [âŚ]
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
Grace Kyoko Noda
NodaâGrace Kyoko Noda, 98, on March 14, 2018, at her home in Davis, Calif., peacefully. Grace was born on January [âŚ]
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Poetry
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [âŚ]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Because of This: Lao Tzuâs Tao Te Ching: How to Live, Love, and Lead
By Jim Teeters. Barclay Press, 2018. 104 pages. $14/paperback. Jim Teetersâs new book, Because of This: Lao Tzuâs Tao Te [âŚ]
Michael S. Glaser, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2004â2009, is a professor emeritus at St. Maryâs College of Maryland. Co-editor of The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965â2010, he and his wife, Kathleen (a Courage and Renewal facilitator), offer retreats that invite participants to engage with poetry as a means of helping to live an examined life.
Posted in: August 2018 Books, Going Viral with Quakerism, Quaker Book Reviews
Our D.C. Family
Signs passed by as we continued to drive on the bumpy road. It was a dreary, dark, foggy day. The [âŚ]
Gianna Katsock, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Finding My Community
I grew up going to a Quaker meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. I never truly liked going to meeting because [âŚ]
Jocie Resnik, Grade 9, Westtown School, member of Goshen Meeting in West Chester, Pa.
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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March 2019
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Never Having Set Foot in the Meetinghouse by Yohannes âKnowledgeâ Johnson
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Faces of Addiction by Eric K. Hatch
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Holding Unite the Right to the Light by Debby Churchman
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