Jane Pearn draws on her interest in language and her 30 years as a Quaker to consider the meaning of concern in her own life and in the lives of others.
This book is about not keeping quiet, but joining with others and in doing so gaining and lending strength. It is an anthology of a wide variety of experiences collected by a Quaker group over the past twenty years.
Speaking from the traditional Quaker claim of inward knowledge of Christ the Light, the author shows her accord with early Friends’ writings and the Scriptures they affirmed.
Teach me the language of your hands. Rachel has been the voice for her deaf mother since she was born, but now she is restless to be heard for herself. Together, they have found sanctuary in a Quaker community that reveres silence. But the world i