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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. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! […]

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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Are You a Friend?

By Peter Moretzsohn on June 1, 2016

Our communities are not beacons of the Spirit simply on the basis of being called “Quaker.”

A native of the Philadelphia suburbs, Peter Moretzsohn is a graduate of Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt. He recently moved to Lambertville, N.J., where he works for a nonprofit farm/preserve. A lifelong lover of songwriting and playing the guitar, he is an attendee of Solebury Meeting in New Hope, Pa.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker

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Collaboration in Action

By Christel Jorgenson on November 1, 2015

Religious Education 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us […]

Christel Jorgenson, a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), was the youth and education secretary for New England Yearly Meeting for a long spell, and now happily helps with family worship at her meeting. She spends winter months at Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City, Mexico, where she attends Mexico City Meeting.

Posted in: November 2015: Books and Pop Culture, Religious Education

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Touring Europe to Promote Spirit Rising

By Sarah Katreen Hoggatt on June 14, 2012

This is an online companion to “What Bridges Are Made Of,” the author’s piece in the June/July 2012 issue.

Sarah Katreen Hoggatt is an author, speaker, spiritual director, and photographer. She holds a masters degree from George Fox Evangelical Seminary and was on the editorial board for the Quaker Youth Book Project. She is a member of Freedom Friends Church in Salem, Oregon. Her blog is at WalkingTheSea.blogspot.com.

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