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Radicalizing Spirit: The Challenge of Contemporary Quakerism This month, Brian Drayton, who travels among Friends with a concern for those led to ministry and spiritual nurture, sits in Ellen’s Corner to review Radicalizing Spirit, and ask: “Can Friends dare to trust the Spirit, trust it radically, to be at work in all kinds of people drawn to worship with us—evangelical, liberal, Conservative, and all the hyphenated varieties that have arisen in recent decades, as people have been drawn (led!) to join with us?”    Sometimes, a little arithmetic helps focus the mind. Taking 1652 as the beginning of Quakerism, we...

  BookMusings is the official eNewsletter of QuakerBooks of FGC. Each issue highlights books and themes carefully selected by bookstore staff for your enjoyment, as well as information about sales and other unique opportunities available to our readers. Below is the introductory text and table of contents.   View the complete eNewsletter online or as a PDF.   Dear Friend,  If you're eagerly awaiting your next hammock read, or a good beach book, we have many suggestions to intrigue your mind and enrich your life, both in fun and in spirit. Check out what titles from QuakerBooks you could be reading this summer!We look...

BookMusings: May 2016 eNewsletter Posted by QuakerBooks of FGC Staff on May 13, 2016 Image credit: Marta Rusek BookMusings is the official eNewsletter of QuakerBooks of FGC. Each issue highlights books and themes carefully selected by bookstore staff for your enjoyment, as well as information about sales and other unique opportunities available to our readers. Below is the introductory text and table of contents. View the complete eNewsletter online or as a PDF. Out in the bright spring sunshine is a great place to read a book. If you've already perked up to those first days of warm weather and gotten out the hammock,...

Ellen's Corner: Changing the World—One Book and Child at a Time Posted by Ellen Michaud on May 9, 2016 As a warm sun streamed through the windows and open door of the South Starksboro First Day School high in the mountains of Vermont, the upturned faces gathered around me were riveted on the book I was holding up for everyone to see. The Curious Garden, by Peter Brown, follows a little boy as he discovers an abandoned garden in an aging, industrial city, tends the garden, then helps it spread over abandoned buildings, through rusty trainyards, and across cracked and...

Ellen's Corner: Language for the Inward Landscape Posted by Ellen Michaud on March 21, 2016 As I walked up the path to a friend’s home here in Vermont, snowdrops lightly iced with spring snow bordered my journey. Bees covered the delicate flowers, a sleepy cat dozed in the window, and a huge pot of boiling maple syrup beside the door sent clouds of sweetly-scented steam up into the sunshine.  It was a small moment, but one which filled me with joy. I was meeting with a small group of Friends in the area to discuss our spiritual growth. It was...