Tag Archives | Margaret Fell

Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love: Four Essentials for the Abundant Life

By Reviewed by Rob Pierson. on April 1, 2020

By J. Brent Bill. Paraclete Press, 2019. 144 pages. $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook.

Rob Pierson is a member of Albuquerque (N.M.) Meeting, an engineer, a pilgrimage planner, and a graduate of the Master of Ministry program at the Earlham School of Religion (ESR). He first met J. Brent Bill at ESR and learned more than a little about writing well and living well from him.

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The Workings of the Spirit of God Within: The Offices of Christ

By Reviewed by Rausie Hobson. on April 1, 2020

By David Johnson. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 459), 2019. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet or 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: April 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, The State of Quaker Institutions

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Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on April 1, 2019

By Margaret Fell, edited by Jane Donawerth and Rebecca M. Lush. Iter Press and the Arizona Center for Medieval and […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and is active in Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: 2008, April 2019 Books, Humor in Religion, Quaker Book Reviews

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Sweet Baby Jesus

By Patricia Wild on December 1, 2018

The present‐tense verbs of George Fox.

A convinced Friend since 1982, Patricia Wild is a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), where she serves on its Ministry and Counsel and Prison Fellowship Group. Her latest "book, _WellingUp.net_, is an interactive, experimental website that tells a Quaker novel online using podcasts and supplementary materials and links.

Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity

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The Light Will Rip You Up

By Caroline Morris on November 1, 2018

Navigating anorexia with Simone Weil

Caroline Morris attended Portland Seminary of George Fox University, where she wrote a thesis on the connection between anorexia and asceticism, and is a current student at Earlham School of Religion.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features

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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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Face to Face: Early Quaker Encounters with the Bible

By Reviewed by Tom Paxson on August 1, 2017

By T. Vail Palmer Jr. Barclay Press, 2016. 288 pages. $20/paperback. In Face to Face, T. Vail Palmer Jr. creates […]

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: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying

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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 coordinator 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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A Place of Stillness in Iran

By Karie Firoozmand on October 1, 2016

A Friend finds that inward place of quiet communion while traveling through Iran.

Karie Firoozmand is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md.

Posted in: Crossing Cultures, Features

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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on August 1, 2016

By Brian Drayton and William P. Taber Jr. Tract Association of Friends, 2016. 180 pages. $20/hardcover. Late in the fourth […]

Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quaker history, faith, and practice. His most recent book is The Essential Elias Hicks.

Posted in: August 2016 Books, August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Quaker Book Reviews

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