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What Did Easter Mean to Early Quakers?

By David K. Leonard on March 30, 2020

Early Friends’ understanding of the resurrection was colored by their experience of the presence of God in their midst.

David K. Leonard is a member of Birmingham (Pa.) Meeting, which invited him to share these thoughts as a talk on Easter Sunday in 2019.

Posted in: Faith and Practice, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
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A Quaker meeting in the eighteenth century, vintage engraving.

When Is a Creed Not a Creed?

By Ann Birch on March 1, 2020

Revisiting that of God in every man.

Ann Birch is a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting, where she is currently the clerk. She is a librarian, a grandmother, and active in local theater.

Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
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How Far Have You Traveled?

By Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar on March 1, 2020

By John Calvi. True Quaker Press, 2019. 236 pages. $14.95/paperback.

Bob Dixon-Kolar is an associate professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He and his family are members of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.

Posted in: March 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
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What Do Quakers Believe? AND Telling the Truth about God

By Reviewed by Marty Grundy on March 1, 2020

By Geoffrey Durham. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.

Marty Grundy, a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, has struggled to help Friends enlarge their vocabulary and remember that when each speaks the language of the heart, the burden of translation is on the hearer.

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Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught (and Why That’s Okay)

By Reviewed by Paul Buckley on March 1, 2020

By Carl McColman. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019. 160 pages. $16.99/paperback or eBook.

Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.

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Meet Rebecca Hamilton‐Levi, the new producer of QuakerSpeak

By Gail Whiffen on February 1, 2020

Rebecca joined the Friends Publishing team in December 2019, and will be taking on the duties of producing the QuakerSpeak [
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Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal. 

Posted in: February 2019
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Forum, January 2020

By Staff on January 1, 2020

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Drugs, Forum
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The Marriage of William Penn and Hannah Callowhill, 1696. Ernest Board (1877–1934). @ https://commons.wikimedia.org.

A Call to Work Outside Our Circles

By C. Wess Daniels on January 1, 2020

A Friend responds to the New York Times opinion column on Quakers and pronouns.

C. Wess Daniels lives in Greensboro, N.C.

Posted in: Drugs, Viewpoint
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Quakers Reading Mystics

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on January 1, 2020

By Michael Birkel. Brill, 2018. 124 pages. $81/paperback or eBook; $30/article. Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2018) of Quaker Studies.

Brian Drayton worships with Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: Drugs, January 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
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David Lee Owen

By Staff on January 1, 2020

Owen—David Lee Owen, 73, on October 16, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C. David was born on June 7, 1945, at home [
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Posted in: Drugs, Milestones
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