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Meeting for Reading: Seeds that Change the World

Meeting for Reading: Seeds that Change  the World

“Quakers today are a pale shadow of who we are called to be,” writes Debbie Humphries. Yet “we are stewards of a powerful tradition…[that] the world desperately needs.” How do we live into that truth?

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Ellen's Review Corner: Hiking Naked - A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance

Ellen's Review Corner: Hiking Naked - A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance

“Hiking Naked is a compelling examination of the intention to serve those around us—and the search for God’s voice in the wilderness of civilization.” By Ellen Michaud Discernment has got to be the toughest process in which Quakers engage. It is deep, it is profound, and it is often frustrating as we circle round and round a particular question, a particular issue, a particular set of circumstances. But the sense of rightness, and the experience of patient, everlasting, and overwhelming love as we come to finally understand that we are led in one direction or another touches our souls, grows...

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Featured Artists: Peter Blood and Annie Patterson

Featured Artists: Peter Blood and Annie Patterson

By Marta Rusek Featured in the September BookMusings and Vital Friends eNewsletters of FGC   When they produced the original Rise Up Singing Songbook, Peter Blood and Annie Patterson never imagined that it would become such a widely-used book in churches, camps, and peace groups beyond the Quaker community. I recently caught up with Peter and Annie at New England Yearly Meeting's Annual Sessions at Castleton University in Vermont to ask them about their work, their inspiration, and what's next.    How did the Rise Up Singing and Rise Again Songbooks come to be?Peter: We have led singing among Quakers...

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Featured Author: Edith Maxwell

Featured Author: Edith Maxwell

Edith Maxwell is an Agatha-nominated and national best-selling author who is the writer of not one but four mystery series. Get to know Edith in this month's Featured Author interview.

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Ellen's Review Corner: Introducing Earthcare Challenges to Young Friends

Ellen's Book Corner

Ellen's Review Corner: Introducing Earthcare Challenges to Young Friends

by Ellen Michaud Sitting here under the ancient oaks that surround my cottage at the edge of the Sacramento Valley, I watch as a heavy, late-summer sun slowly slides through their branches, and drifts toward the horizon. The Valley temperature has hovered around 105 degrees all day. But here, under the trees and not far from the Sierra foothills, I am sheltered from much of the heat. I am sheltered because at some time back in the seventies, a group of people valued these trees enough to preserve them and establish a small community that would be dedicated to their survival....

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