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The Light Will Rip You Up
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
A Gathering of Spirits: The Friends General Conferences 1896–1950
By Douglas Gwyn. QuakerPress of FGC, 2018. 316 pages. $20/paperback. Doug Gwyn is the ideal writer to tackle this project. […]
Gwen Gosney Erickson is the Friends Historical Collection librarian and archivist at Guilford College and a member of Friendship Meeting in Greensboro, N.C.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
All Around Us
By Xelena González, illustrated by Adriana M. Garcia. Cinco Puntos Press, 2017. 32 pages. $17.95/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages […]
Emmy Gay is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions
By Casey Tygrett. IVP Books, 2017. 192 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Got faith? Then why question? Now there’s a question, and […]
Rob Pierson is a member of Albuquerque (N.M.) Meeting and a graduate of the Master of Ministry program at the Earlham School of Religion. He enjoys parallel lives in Quakerism and engineering, two fields where questions are at the core of the discipline.
Posted in: February 2018, February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy
By Michael McCarthy. New York Review Books, 2016. 273 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. “People from a planet without flowers would think […]
Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Burlington (Vt.) Meeting. She currently serves as clerk of New England Yearly Meeting’s Earthcare Ministry Committee and is author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Counselor Orientation ’99
A tale of a Quaker summertime romance.
Pete Dybdahl lives on Long Island, N.Y., and attends Matinecock Meeting in Locust Valley, N.Y.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Summers
Sally Winton Bryan
Bryan—Sally Winton Bryan, 95, on October 25, 2015, in San Juan Island, Wash. Sally was born on July 15, 1920, […]
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Milestones
Viewpoint: How to Write a Thank‐you Note
How to get through that pile of thank‐you notes—and end up liking your Friends! 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in […]
Beatrice Ridgway Carson
Carson—Beatrice Ridgway Carson, 95, of Oakford, Pa., on May 16, 2016. Bea was born on September 5, 1920, in Bucks […]
Posted in: Milestones, September 2016
Hunting Pennies: Poems from an Appalachian Childhood
By Errol Hess. Wetknee Books, 2015. 69 pages. $5.99/paperback. Hunting Pennies reminded me of going for a dip in a […]
Catherine Wald is a poet and author of Distant, Burned-out Stars. She is a member of Amawalk (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: 2016, June/July 2016 Books, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker, Quaker Book Reviews
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
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If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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