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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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A Gathering of Spirits: The Friends General Conferences 1896–1950

By Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson on November 1, 2018

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
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All Around Us

By Reviewed by Emmy Gay on May 1, 2018

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?
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Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

By Reviewed by Rob Pierson on February 1, 2018

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
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The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy

By Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt on June 1, 2017

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
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Counselor Orientation ’99

By Pete Dybdahl on May 1, 2017

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
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Sally Winton Bryan

By Staff on April 1, 2017

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
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Viewpoint: How to Write a Thank‐you Note

By Mariellen Gilpin on December 1, 2016

How to get through that pile of thank‐you notes—and end up liking your Friends! 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in […]

Mariellen Gilpin lives in Champaign, Ill.


Posted in: Giving and Philanthropy, Viewpoint
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Beatrice Ridgway Carson

By Staff on September 1, 2016

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
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Hunting Pennies: Poems from an Appalachian Childhood

By Reviewed by Catherine Wald on June 1, 2016

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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