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Richard Rohr: Essential Teachings on Love

By Reviewed by Rob Pierson on August 1, 2019

By Richard Rohr, edited by Joelle Chase and Judy Traeger. Orbis Books, 2018. 288 pages. $22/paperback; $18.50/eBook. In the classic […]

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 aren’t quite right.

Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five

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The Quakers, 1656–1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on April 1, 2019

By Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. 360 pages. $39.95/hardcover. The century […]

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

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Walk Humbly, Serve Boldly: Modern Quakers as Everyday Prophets

By Reviewed by Marty Grundy on February 1, 2019

By Margery Post Abbott. Inner Light Books, 2018. 478 pages. $45/hardcover; $30/paperback; $12.50/eBook. Margery Post Abbott’s latest book presents Friends […]

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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How Am I a Christian?

By Douglas C. Bennett on December 1, 2018

Will others see us as Christians by our love?

Douglas C. Bennett served as president of Earlham College from 1997 to 2011. Now retired, he is a member of Durham (Maine) Meeting.

Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity

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The Inner Guide versus the Inner Critic: The Journey from Judgment to Love

By Reviewed by Marty Grundy on November 1, 2018

By Christine Wolff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 448), 2017. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Christine Wolff, a psychologist using the Diamond Approach, […]

Marty Grundy is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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To Build Is to Love

By Quinn Daugherty on May 1, 2018

The stairs to the vast, rustic house creaked as I lugged my teal trunk up the steps. The bright sunlight […]

Quinn Daugherty, Grade 10, Westtown School, attender of Unami Meeting in Pennsburg, Pa.

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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March 2018 Full Issue Access

By Staff on March 1, 2018

FJ Members can download the full PDF of the March issue or read any article online.

Posted in: Full Access, Quakers and the Holy Land

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A Network of Love

By Lois Jordan on March 1, 2018

An Indiana witness in Palestine, remembered.

Lois Jordan is a lifelong Quaker who grew up in Rich Square Meeting in Indiana and graduated from Earlham College. When Rich Square closed, she and her husband, Carl (now deceased), became members of New Castle (Ind.) Meeting. She presently resides at Friends Fellowship Community in Richmond, Ind., and is a member of West Richmond Meeting in Richmond, Ind. She is the author of Ramallah Teacher: The Life of Mildred White, Quaker Missionary, now out of print.

Posted in: Features, Quakers and the Holy Land

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