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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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Emma Kathleen O’Neill MacInnes

By Staff on October 1, 2018

MacInnes—Emma Kathleen O’Neill MacInnes, 97, on March 30, 2018, in Newtown, Pa. Kay was born on May 26, 1920, in […]


Posted in: Meetings and Money, Milestones
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Quaker Works October 2018

By Staff on October 1, 2018

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations.


Posted in: Meetings and Money, Quaker Works
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Syrian children at a feeding station in Turkey administered by TIAFI (Team International Assistance for Integration).

Gota de Leche

By Camilla Meek on September 1, 2018

The yellowing pages of 80‐year‐old AFSC relief pamphlets inspire a new sense of agency.

Camilla Meek lives in Durham, N.C., where she has attended Durham Meeting and Guilford College Meeting. She served as a director of communications for Guilford College. Meek has a BA degree in fine arts and an MBA in marketing.

Special thanks to Don Davis of the AFSC Archives.


Posted in: Features, September 2018
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Presence and Process: A Path Toward Transformative Faith and Inclusive Community

By Reviewed by Peter West Nutting on September 1, 2018

By Daniel P. Coleman. Barclay Press, 2017. 232 pages. $20/paperback; $6.99/eBook. At the end of his remarkable book, Daniel Coleman […]

Peter West Nutting is a member of Vassalboro (Maine) Meeting and Central Committee of Friends General Conference and regularly gives workshops on “Photography as a Contemplative Practice.”


Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
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Vincent Paul Buscemi

By Staff on September 1, 2018

Buscemi—Vincent Paul Buscemi, 89, on March 11, 2017, at home in New York City. Vince was born on May 18, […]


Posted in: Milestones, September 2018
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Quaker Works April 2018

By Staff on April 1, 2018

A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy […]


Posted in: Healing, Quaker Works
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Living in Dark Times

By Reviewed by Pamela Haines on February 1, 2018

By Rex Ambler. Pendle Hill, 2017. 27 pages. $7/Pamphlet. Reading the title of this pamphlet calls up images of the […]

Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.


Posted in: February 2018, February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Evergreen Worship Group circa 2006. Photo courtesy of the author.

Releasing One Another for Faithfulness

By Marcelle Martin on January 1, 2018

Exploring a vision for faithful communities.

Marcelle Martin, a member of Swarthmore (Pa.) Meeting, is the author of Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey. She leads workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings. Currently she is the core teacher for the Nurturing Worship, Faith & Faithfulness program at the Woolman Hill Quaker retreat center in Deerfield, Mass. Visit her website at awholeheart.com.


Posted in: Quaker Lifestyles
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Interview with Friends Journal’s Assistant Book Review Editor

By Staff on November 1, 2017

We talk with the editor of our children’s book reviews.

Eileen Redden is a retired school counselor and teacher, and a member of Camden (Del.) Meeting. More recently she’s been attending a worship group at Cadbury Senior Living in Lewes, Del. She has served as the volunteer assistant book review editor of Friends Journal since 2008. To contact Eileen about becoming a reviewer, email [email protected].

This interview is an extended version of the one that appeared in the print magazine.


Posted in: Interviews, Quaker Libraries
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