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Addicted to Fast Money
Gambling: A Violation of the Quaker Testimonies
A violation of the Quaker testimonies?
To Gamble, for Better or for Worse
How do we discern when a gamble is rightly ordered?
Continuing a Quaker Affordable Housing Legacy
Friends past and present working on housing access in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Eric Malm is a professor of economics and business management at Cabrini University in Radnor, Pa., a member Norristown (Pa.) Meeting, and a member of Abington Quarter鈥檚 Home and Care Committee. More information about the meeting鈥檚 housing project can be found at norristownfriends.org.
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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.
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The Same, But Different: Ministry and the Quaker Pastor
By Phil Baisley. Friends United Press, 2018. 172 pages. $26/hardcover; $20/paperback.
Margaret Webb is the pastoral minister at New Garden Meeting in Greensboro, N.C. She has a bachelor鈥檚 from Earlham College and a master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. She serves on the Board of Advisors at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 304 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (available January 2020); $2.99/eBook.
Ruah Swennerfelt is a member of Middlebury (Vt.) Meeting. She and Louis Cox live in an all-solar, all-electric home in rural Vermont where they grow most of the vegetables and fruits that they consume year-round. She is the author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith.
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