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Selling Out to Niceness
Ann Jerome is a member of Orlando (Fla.) Meeting in Southeastern Yearly Meeting. She has twice helped to found worship groups where she lives in Deland, Fla. Recently she served for two years as a Friend in residence at Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pa.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Trying to Be Truthful
By Chel Avery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 455), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Reflections on trying to be truthful are particularly […]
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa., part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. A retired professor of philosophy, he has long been interested in philosophical questions regarding truth and knowledge.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
The Book of Delights: Essays
By Ross Gay. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. 288 pages. $23.95/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. I was introduced to Ross Gay when […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and keeps her own daily journal of joy and justice.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
A History of Cadbury
By Diane Wordsworth. Pen and Sword History, 2018. 176 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $24.95/paperback (available in September); $19.17/eBook. In 1824 John Cadbury […]
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program of Brown University’s English Department.
Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five
One Big Problem
There’s one big problem I notice that relates to competition, and it is caused by masculinity. It’s a problem not […]
Casey Smothers, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project, Student Voices Project 2019
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?
Mela and the Elephant
By Dow Phumiruk, illustrated by Ziyue Chen. Sleeping Bear Press, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8. […]
Lisa Rand works with youth at a public library in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
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
A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine
By Elizabeth Meyer. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 453), 2018. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet is an excellent explanation […]
Marty Grundy has been clerk and recording clerk of monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings; as well as recording clerk of Friends General Conference's Central Committee and Religious Education Committee; and the first clerk of FGC's Traveling Ministries Program.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
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Empowering Women against Gender‐based Violence by Parfaite Ntahuba
The Place of God’s Own Choosing by Eden Grace
Quaker Christianity in Kenya by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
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