Quaker Life, The Best of Quaker Life 2016-2023, Spring 2023: E-PUB VERSION

Purchase a single copy of the Spring 2023 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Best of Quaker Life, 2016-2023. Seven years ago, Friends United Meeting re-imagined Quaker Life as a publication that occurred at greater length, but less frequently. We changed the format to that of a small paperback book, so it could be placed like a devotional on a bookshelf or night table, or easily fit into a purse or satchel. We took out the news items that could not be timely in a publication with months-long pauses and emphasized stories about the intersections of life and faith. We encouraged artists to send us their visual works.  After three years, we began to choose theological themes for each issue, to assist writers and artists in finding stories in their own lives. We’ve settled on an extremely loose interpretation of each theme, but we’ve ranged broadly across the fields of faith, theology, and belief. So far, our authors and artists have reflected on grace, joy,