On Cooperation
We are bags full of muscle and bone. And although we can see the leather of the bags, we can only guess at the contents, the memories and desires that propel any life, including our own.
Department:
We are bags full of muscle and bone. And although we can see the leather of the bags, we can only guess at the contents, the memories and desires that propel any life, including our own.
William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
Quaker Truth in Pennsylvania, 1682-1781
written by James Proud
reviewed by Robert Levering
I’d be interested in this book even if I weren’t a Quaker.
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Quakerism: The Basics
by Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott
reviewed by Tom Head
Dear Editor: In your essay on Puritans and Quakers in the Sept/Oct 2021 Western Friend, we noticed the name of William Leddra, who was hanged on Boston Common. Leddra’s story is part of our family history. Robert Harper and his wife, Deborah Perry, are our 8th great grandparents and founders of Sandwich Meeting.
“Before going into unfamiliar arid country,” the late Jim Corbett wrote, “study maps that show the location of water.”
A Case for Quaker-Style Method of Governance – An explanation of the earliest Quaker texts to questions of modern governance, by an admirer of George Fox, David Seargent.
