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Interview with Friends Journal’s Assistant Book Review Editor

By Staff on November 1, 2017

We talk with the editor of our children’s book reviews.

Eileen Redden is a retired school counselor and teacher, and a member of Camden (Del.) Meeting. More recently she’s been attending a worship group at Cadbury Senior Living in Lewes, Del. She has served as the volunteer assistant book review editor of Friends Journal since 2008. To contact Eileen about becoming a reviewer, email [email protected]friendsjournal.org.

This interview is an extended version of the one that appeared in the print magazine.

Posted in: Interviews, Quaker Libraries

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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

By Reviewed by William Shetter on November 1, 2017

By Krista Tippett. Penguin Press, 2016. 288 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback; $12.99/eBook. “I’m a person who listens for a living.… This […]

William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. He is still trying to become wiser, and now and then even succeeds.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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Meeting God in Scripture: A Hands-On Guide to Lectio Divina

By Reviewed by Brent Bill on November 1, 2017

By Jan Johnson. InterVarsity Press, 2016. 256 pages. $17/paperback; $16.99/eBook. We Quakers have a rather complicated relationship with the Bible. […]

Brent Bill recently retired from his position as associate secretary for communications, publications, and outreach at Friends General Conference. He is a member of West Newton Meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., and his newest book is Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Second Edition).

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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I Want You to Be: On the God of Love

By Reviewed by Tom Paxson on October 1, 2017

By Tomáš Halík, translated by Gerald Turner. University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. 189 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Tomáš Halík, a […]

Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa. Kendal Meeting is a member of Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power

By In Brief Compiled by Karie Firoozmand on October 1, 2017

By Jerry Knutson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 443), 2017. 31 pages. $7/pamphlet. Pendle Hill pamphlets are by nature short, and […]

Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Homegoing: A Novel and The Underground Railroad: A Novel

By Two titles reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on September 1, 2017

Homegoing: A Novel. By Yaa Gyasi. Knopf, 2016. 320 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $11.99/eBook. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. By Colson […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns committees.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books

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Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms

By Barbara Dale on June 1, 2017

Learning disruption and resilience from ants and bees.

Barbara Dale graduated from Earlham College in Indiana with a major in biology in 2015. She participated in Quaker Voluntary Service in Philadelphia, Pa., from 2015 to 2016, and currently works in development for a Quaker values-based affordable housing organization. She lives cooperatively with seven humans in West Philadelphia.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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ePublishers of Truth

By Kathleen Wooten on June 1, 2017

The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends.

Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels extensively among Friends with a concern for how we connect both digitally and face-to-face. She also serves New England Yearly Meeting as events coördinator and social media manager. Kathleen shares her travels and learning at quakerkathleen.wordpress.com.

Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Online Features

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