Quakers in Victoria

Religious Schism in Early Nineteenth Century America By Robert W. Doherty (289.6 DOH)             This book traces the sociological or societal, as well as the religious, issues, particularly in the Philadelphia area of 19th century America, that led to the so-called Hicksite Separation (named after Elias Hicks) of 1827.  Doherty points out that the early… Read more: The Hicksite Separation: A Sociological Analysis of

Selected with and Introduction by Kerry Walters (289.6 JON)           At his birth in Maine in 1863, Rufus Jones’s Aunt Peace said of him, “This child will one day bear the message of the Gospel to distant lands and to peoples across the sea.” And so, he did.  By the time he was four years… Read more: Rufus Jones. Essential Writings

If, as a librarian, I allow myself some time to muse about libraries, it is only fitting that I begin with reference to the great Library at Alexandria in Egypt, which is believed to have been instituted by Ptolemy II, pharaoh and basileus of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, sometime in the 3rd century BCE.  It formed… Read more: A Librarian Muses about Libraries

          If you’re familiar with Quaker practice, but not with the psychological principles of Carl Jung, this book is a good introduction to Jung, as well as being an interesting perspective on the intersection of his principles with Quakerism.  Jung, like Quakers, believed “that any true religion should be founded on experience, not on dogma,… Read more: Jung and the Quaker Way by Jack H. Wallis (289.6092 WAL)

Reviewed by Matthew Manera. Though this book was published in 2017 and deals with the aftermath of Trump’s election in 2016, it applies just as well, perhaps even more so, to where we are in 2025. Snyder begins with a Prologue on History and Tyranny to set the stage for the rest of the book.… Read more: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder (321.9 SNY)