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Reading the Qurâan as a Quaker
Fifth Seasonâs Featured Video
Posted in: QuakerSpeak at Five, Unfeatured
Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
By Jonathan WilsonâHartgrove. IVP Books, 2018. 192 pages. $20/hardcover; $19.99/eBook. Back in 1968, I was a 13âyearâold seeker and new [âŚ]
Steve Chase is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.), the manager of Academic Initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), and an organizer with the Occupation Free DC anti-police brutality campaign. He is a published author and a regular contributor to ICNCâs Minds of the Movement blog.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
Richard Rohr: Essential Teachings on Love
By Richard Rohr, edited by Joelle Chase and Judy Traeger. Orbis Books, 2018. 288 pages. $22/paperback; $18.50/eBook. In the classic [âŚ]
Rob Pierson is a member of Albuquerque (N.M.) Meeting and a graduate of the Master of Ministry program at Earlham School of Religion. Like Richard Rohr, he is an Enneagram 1, so an engineer, Quaker, and recovering perfectionist who worries that his life and this review still arenât quite right.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
Food Choices, Relationship, and God
Learning to understand what we are actually hungry for.
Lorene Ludy is a member of Lincoln (Neb.) Meeting. She is a Benedictine Oblate and a Stephen Minister. She likes to eat and hang out with God.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
The Invisible Damage of Competition
Welcoming a new narrative in which we all are gifted.
Mary Jo Klingel has been a Friend for about 20 years and attends Charlotte (N.C.) Meeting. She is the new clerk of Quaker Earthcare Witness. She is sustained by her leading to dig deeper, understand more clearly, and be led by the Light.
Posted in: Features, Friendly Competition?
Laughing for the Wary
Humor can help build religious community but it can also hurt and cause division.
Howard R. Macy is retired from teaching at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore. He continues to write and serve in public ministry. Two of his books treat humor and religion: Laughing Pilgrims: Humor and the Spiritual Journey and Discovering Humor in the Bible: An Explorer's Guide.
Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion
Finding Lightness in the Light
We Quakers have an image problem when it comes to fun and frivolity.
Kerry O'Regan has been a member of Adelaide Meeting in South Australia for the past 30 years and looks after the booksâas in library booksâfor the meeting. She is a retired teacher who lives right by the sea and so feels that she is on permanent vacation.
Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion
Pacifism Revisited
By avoiding pacifism in the twentieth century, we skirted opportunities to unlearn racism.
Katherine HawkerSelf lives in St. Louis, Mo.
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Viewpoint
August 2019: QuakerSpeak at Five
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Stripping Down Quakerism for the Internet by Max L. Carter
Meeting for Viewing: How QuakerSpeak Deepens Our Spirituality by Krista Barnard
Muslim? Quaker? Speak! by Naveed Moeed
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Your Gift by Mary Timberlake
At That Time by James Littwin
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