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Mary Penington (1625-1682)

Mary Penington’s name is usually mentioned first because she was married to Isaac, and secondarily as mother of Gulielma, William…

Brian Drayton

April 2024 Books

Exploring Isaac Penington: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Mystic, Teacher and Activist

By Ruth Tod. Christian Alternative Books (Quaker Quicks), 2023. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. I never devoted much time to reading…

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

‘The Power,’ Quaking, and the Rediscovery of Primitive Quakerism

"The Power of the Lord," or just simply, "The Power," was a very important concept to the early Quakers, but…

Scott Martin

February 2016 Books

Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought: 1647–1723

Edited by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 340 pages. $120/hardcover; $96/eBook. “An institution is the…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

On Going Beyond Religion to Love, Peace, and Unity

It has always surprised me that there is such a thing as a Quaker Universalist Group. My understanding has been…

Sue Glover

Our Testimony to the World

In the aftermath of our country’s encounter with its terrorist assailants, I have been sometimes dismayed by Friends’ too handy…

Michael Dawson

Excerpts from Letters of Spiritual Counsel

Isaac Penington

August 2016 Books

A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement

By Brian Drayton and William P. Taber Jr. Tract Association of Friends, 2016. 180 pages. $20/hardcover. Late in the fourth…

Reviewed by Paul Buckley

Life in the Meeting

Pandemic Discoveries

Reflections on the year with queries addressing unexpected joys, things we learned, and something new we tried during the year.

Mary Ann Downey

David Scofield Wilson

Wilson—David Scofield Wilson, 88, on December 7, 2019, peacefully at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif. He was born in…

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