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Gambling: A Violation of the Quaker Testimonies
A violation of the Quaker testimonies?
On the Spirituality of Lightheartedness
By Helen Steere Horn. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 456), 2019. 26 pages. $7/pamphlet.
J. Brent Bill, a member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. His newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love is slated for release this month.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
By George Yancy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 180 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $18.99/eBook.
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. Her most recent book is Money and Soul, an expansion of a Pendle Hill pamphlet by the same name.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.
David P. Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world and Holocaust history.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Pentecost Paradigm: Ten Strategies for Becoming a Multiracial Congregation
By Jacqueline J. Lewis and John Janka. Westminster John Knox Press, 2018. 114 pages. $13/paperback; $10/eBook.
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Losing Earth: A Recent History
By Nathaniel Rich. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 224 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook.
Phil Favero is a member of Agate Passage Meeting in Washington State. He is a Montana native, a former member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, a retired economist, and a longtime supporter of Friends’ work to right our relationship with the natural world.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Selling Out to Niceness
The Religious Society of Friends’ witness is hidden when we elevate niceness over kindness.
Ann Jerome is a member of Orlando (Fla.) Meeting in Southeastern Yearly Meeting. She has twice helped to found worship groups where she lives in Deland, Fla. Recently she served for two years as a Friend in residence at Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pa.
Posted in: Features, September 2019
Writing for Open Issues (next: Feb 2020)
Learn how to write for a Friends Journal open issue.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. This piece originally written May 2018.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Meeting for Viewing: How QuakerSpeak Deepens Our Spirituality
How QuakerSpeak deepens our spirituality.
Krista Barnard began worshiping with Friends 40 years ago. She is a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting and clerk of its Welcoming Committee. In addition to hosting after-worship discussions, she leads women’s Bible study, practices qi gong, and volunteers as a docent at the zoo.
Posted in: Features, QuakerSpeak at Five
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