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Love in the Time of Coronavirus
Gabriel Ehri is Executive Director. [email protected]
Posted in: Among Friends, The State of Quaker Institutions
A Word from the Lost: Remarks on James Naylerâs Love to the Lost and a Hand Held Forth to the Helpless to Lead Out of the Dark
By David Lewis. Inner Light Books, 2019. 276 pages. $35/hardcover; $25/paperback; $12.50/eBook.
Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.
Posted in: March 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found: A Memoir of Suffering, Grit, and Love of the Himalayas and Basa Village
By Jeff Rasley. Selfâpublished, 2019. 494 pages. $14.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook.
Karie Firoozmand is the book review editor for Friends Journal.
Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
By Richard Rohr. Convergent Books, 2019. 272 pages. $26/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.
Ken Jacobsen and his wife, Katharine, until her death in 2017, served as teachers and co-directors in Quaker communities such as Olney Friends School and Pendle Hill. Ken has taught theology and healing at Chicago Theological Seminary and has led retreats on Jesusâs teachings at Friends Center in Barnesville, Ohio. He keeps his home in Wisconsin as a poustinia, a retreat house for spiritual travelers.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Our Child of the Stars
By Stephen Cox. Jo Fletcher Books, 2019. 496 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $15.92/paperback; $3.99/eBook.
Rausie Hobson is a member of Rocky River Meeting in Siler City, N.C., Friends Church of North Carolina. She is a retired ESL teacher and public librarian, a member of Quakers Uniting in Publications, and was publications board clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM) for many years.
Posted in: Friends in Africa, October 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today
By John Shelby Spong. HarperOne, 2018. 336 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Many Friends acknowledge the Christian roots of the Religious [âŚ]
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: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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
The Quakers, 1656â1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community
By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century [âŚ]
Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.
Posted in: April 2019 Books, Humor in Religion, Quaker Book Reviews
Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets
By Margery Post Abbott. Inner Light Books, 2018. 478 pages. $45/hardcover; $30/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Margery Post Abbottâs latest book presents Friends [âŚ]
Marty Grundy is now a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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