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Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment
A Call to Work Outside Our Circles
A Friend responds to the New York Times opinion column on Quakers and pronouns.
Me and My Maker
A Friendās idea of Christianity is one of a relationship with her maker.
A textile designer by profession, Edwina Dankwa Assan founded the social enterprise Edtex over 20 years ago to ethically produce handmade, color-fast fabrics for fashion designers and home decorators. She is a member of Hill House Meeting in Accra, Ghana.
Posted in: Faith and Practice, Quaker Kids
On the Spirituality of Lightheartedness
By Helen Steere Horn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 456), 2019. 26 pages. $7/pamphlet.
J. Brent Bill, a member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. His newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love is slated for release this month.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
By Barbara Brown Taylor. HarperOne, 2019. 256 pages. $25.99/hardcover; $15.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook.
Diane Reynolds is Quaker, formerly a member of Patapsco Meeting in Ellicott City, Md., and now a member of Stillwater Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio. She is the author of The Doubled Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and The American Nutcracker.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Tiny Journalist
By Naomi Shihab Nye. BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. 128 pages. $24/hardcover; $17/paperback; $9.99/eBook.
Michael S. Glaser is a professor emeritus at St. Maryās College of Maryland and served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 to 2009.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Spiritual Simplicity
Thereās more to simplicity than tidying up our physical spaces.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in Boston, Mass. in 2015ā16. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
My Year of Living Eschatologically
Awareness of end times comes to a Friend diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Muriel (Mickey) Edgerton is a lifelong Friend, having grown up in the Midwest in Friends United Meeting pastoral worship. She is a graduate of Earlham School of Religion and has been a hospice chaplain for the past 25 years. A 60-year member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting, she is a 15-year resident of Foulkeways at Gwynedd.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
By Larry Yang. Wisdom Publications, 2017. 280 pages. $17.95/paperback; $11.99/eBook. With Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community, [ā¦]
Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She is the recipient of Pendle Hillās 2019 Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship and served as writer-in-residence there from March through July 2019. Anna has an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
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I Think I Understand Now by Andrew Huff
Drugs and the Practice of Spiritual Discernment by Joe McHugh
Supporting Recovery Among Friends by Johanna Jackson
Confronting the Challenge of Drugs by Eric E. Sterling
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