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Simple, Relevant, Amusing

By Kathleen Wooten on August 1, 2018

How do you sum up your experience and share it in 5 words or less?

Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels among Friends both digitally and in person, and carries a minute of travel from her meeting. Kathleen also administers social media accounts for New England Yearly Meeting. She shares about her travels at quakerkathleen.org.

Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
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Mary and William Dyer: Quaker Light and Puritan Ambition in Early New England

By Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson on June 1, 2018

By Johan Winsser. Self‐published, 2017. 345 pages (includes appendix and extensive notes). $24.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Mary Dyer’s story as a Quaker […]

Gwen Gosney Erickson lives in Greensboro, N.C., where she is employed as the Quaker librarian and college archivist at Guilford College. She currently serves as clerk of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative). Her first encounters with Mary Dyer were as a six-year-old sitting on the statue at Earlham College.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Mary Dyer: Friend of Freedom

By Reviewed by Katie Green on November 30, 2015

By John Briggs. Atombank Books, 2014. 102 pages. $6.99/paperback; $2.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. If Quakers were predisposed to naming […]

Katie Green is a member of Worcester (Mass.) Meeting, where she edits their newsletter and teaches First-day school. She is also a storyteller and has led workshops at the Friends General Conference Gathering and New England Yearly Meeting Sessions.

Posted in: December 2015 Books, December 2015: Economic Justice and Poverty, Quaker Book Reviews, Uncategorized
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Testimony: Quakerism and Theological Ethics

By Reviewed by Tom Paxson on November 1, 2015

By Rachel Muers. SCM Press, 2015. 192 pages. $56/paperback or eBook. Testimony is an exploration of the source, character, and […]

Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting of Kendal at Longwood in Kennett Square, Pa., and has been involved in ecumenical work for Friends General Conference since 1990.

Posted in: November 2015 Books, November 2015: Books and Pop Culture, Quaker Book Reviews, Uncategorized
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A Measure of Light: A Novel

By Reviewed by Beth Taylor on November 1, 2015

Most readers know Mary Dyer as a martyr for religious freedom, specifically Quaker faith. But few of us know her […]

Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir. She is co-director of Brown University’s Nonfiction Writing Program.

Posted in: November 2015 Books, November 2015: Books and Pop Culture, Quaker Book Reviews, Uncategorized
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