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A Life that Speaks

• Authored by:
• Mary Klein

On Beginning (March 2016)

A Quaker Prayer Life - Review

• Authored by:
• Helen Gould

A Quaker Prayer Life

On Reconciliation (January 2015)

A Sustainable Life - Review

• Authored by:
• Paul L. Niebanck

Doug Gwyn has established himself among Friends as a scholar, teacher, and writer of consequence. He has helped us through several decades to appreciate and vitalize our peculiar ways of being.

On Countries (January 2016)

Women Doing Life (unabridged)

Life Lessons From a Bad Quaker (review)

• Authored by:
• Rick Ells

Life Lessons From a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble Toward Simplicity and Grace Written by J. Brent Bill Reviewed by Rick Ells

On Captivity (January 2018)

Faith & Life Story

Finding Life with the Dead

• Authored by:
• Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

My sanctuary is my favorite cemetery. It’s easy to miss if you don’t know it’s there. Shielded by shrubbery, it runs down a slope to the river. Outside, my life is rushed and I lose the bigger picture. Inside, I walk with ghostly companions, listen to their wisdom, and find perspective.

On Place (May 2022)

Life Cycle of a Quaker Meeting

• Authored by:
• Sandy Kewman,
• Anne Pomeroy

The lessons we learn from accompanying people as they die can help inform our understanding of the care that Quaker meetings need as they change and age. While closure is an expected and important part of any life, including the life of a meeting, in our youth-focused culture, it can be hard to tend this part of our life cycle. We believe that Quakers are missing some important opportunities for deep spiritual experiences and growth when we don’t address these challenges. Here, we will consider what it might mean to tend the Spirit and the spiritual life of a meeting that is in the later stages of its life.

On Loss (May 2023)

Toward a Life-Centered Economy (review)

• Authored by:
• Catie Polley

Inspired – simply put, this is the feeling I’m left with after reading Toward a Life-Centered Economy. This volume is the twelfth “focus book” from The Quaker Institute for the Future, a spirit-lead research organization working to “envision a global future in which humanity is in right relationship with the commonwealth of life.” The book explores the mindset of unlimited growth, which drives our current global economic system, along with the impending repercussions of that mindset on our global ecosystem. Further, this book spells out the inability of our ecosystem to support our current intense patterns of human consumption, and it offers advice about what we can do to change humanity’s impact.

On Science (November 2022)

The Veil, The Shadow, and the Abundant Life

• Authored by:
• Diego James Navarro

Excerpts from the keynote presentation to Intermountain Yearly Meeting; June 11, 2015; Ghost Ranch, Abiquiú, New Mexico

On Play (September 2015)