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Finding Lightness in the Light
Kerry O'Regan has been a member of Adelaide Meeting in South Australia for the past 30 years and looks after the booksāas in library booksāfor the meeting. She is a retired teacher who lives right by the sea and so feels that she is on permanent vacation.
Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion
A Quaker Perspective on Hope
Hopelessness and burnout lead a Friend to rediscover an archaic form of hope.
Kate Davies is a member of Whidbey Island (Wash.) Meeting and author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. She is also senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute and professor emeritus at Antioch University.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
The Gathered Meeting
FJ Review: āIt would be good if every Friend read and pondered this pamphlet, and if every Ministry and Counsel [ā¦]
Marty Grundy, now a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting), attended the Quaker consultation of 1991, serving as a āparticipant observer.ā
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker LibrariesAmong Friends: A Spiritual and Secular Community in One
An introduction to the issue.
Gail Whiffen Coyle is associate editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training
Friends Journal Reviewer Survey
Our volunteer reviewers share some of their allātime favorite books for Quakers.
A Quaker Prayer Life
By David Johnson. Inner Light Books, 2013. 80 pages. $20/hardcover; $12.50/paperback. There are some books one can review, as it [ā¦]
Born into a Jewish family, Harvey Gillman has been a seeker for most of his life. As outreach secretary for British Quakers, he wrote A Light That Is Shining. Other works include, A Minority of OneĀ and Consider the Blackbird. He has led workshops and has lectured in many places in the Quaker world. Harvey is a member of Brighton Meeting in England.
Posted in: June/July 2014: Concepts of God, Quaker Book ReviewsQuaker Spiritual Disciplines for Hard Times
Can the spiritual disciplines of early Friends help us through hard times in the 21st century? The very question of [ā¦]
Patricia McBee is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. She is editor of Pastoral Care Newsletter and has recently edited a book, Grounded in God: Care and Nurture in Friends Meetings.
Posted in: Features
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Growing Up Quaker by Finn Kyrie
I Am a Quaker by Melinda Wenner Bradley
Giving Up Childhood to Avert Climate Catastrophe by Jim Ross
Let Your Life Speak by Laura Taylor Kinnel
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