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Books November 2014

Quaker book reviews

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Books November 2012

Our annual extensive selection of books

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May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Books August 2014

Book reviews of "But Who Do You Say That I Am?" by Douglas Gwyn, "Gathering the Silence" by Eileen Kinch and "Home Ground" by Jeanne Lohmann, "From Encounter to Ministry," edited by Nancy Thomas, "Living in the Shadow of the Cross" by Paul Kivel, "The Inconvenient Indian" by Thomas King, and "The Sleeping Dictionary" by Sujata Massey.

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Books, August 2013

A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles By Thich Nhat Hanh, illustrated by Wietske Vriezen. Plum Blossom Books, 2012.…

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Forum November 2014

Letters from our readers.

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Contemplating Torture

When U.S. political leaders debate the ethics and efficacy of torture, we need to consider how our country arrived at…

William Nichols

The Freedom to Build

A brief history of meetinghouse design and the story of Chestnut Hill Meeting's new building.

John Andrew Gallery

Henry Cadbury, AFSC, and Haverford College

Even 1918 Quakers were a complicated mix of prophetic and pragmatic.

David Harrington Watt and James Krippner