Out of her own rich experience, Fran Taber expands William Penn’s vision for retreats. Her wisdom guides and supports the retreat movement as a significant thread weaving together the ecumenical religious community.

Out of her own rich experience, Fran Taber expands William Penn's vision for retreats. She describes the retreat movement as a significant thread weaving together the ecumenical religious community.

Fran Taber of Ohio Yearly Meeting has been one of the clearest voices about the Conservative way of life. ( )

This is a wonderful pamphlet addressing the need for periods of silence and solitude, of retreat. Various conditions can especially call for retreat: a spiritual impasse or "dark night of the soul," exhaustion, messiness, and helplessness. But one can seek retreat simply to go into a deeper level of living and wait to see what God does to you, or simply to maintain compassion and awareness of the Presence. She discusses several types of retreat. This pamphlet has many gems; here's one: Julian of Norwich said, "The best prayer is to rest in the goodness of God, knowing that that goodness can reach down to our lowest depths of need." ( )

A significan figure among well known Friends. ( )