Description: Author Kate McNally grew up in a mainstream Christian faith, where she could not find the connection to the divine that we all seek. She turned to psychology and science and to the pursuit of success.

That all worked for a while, providing a measure of comfort but not fulfillment, feeding the ego but not the spirit. Then, at a low point and broken by the drive for success, Kate began a spiritual journey that brought her to the Quakers, where she found a spiritual community and a stripped-down, simple way of following the basic commandment: Love one another.

Verdict: In Quaker Quicks - A Simple Faith in a Complicated World, Kate explores the faith of Jesus rather than the faith about Jesus and shares with us the connections to God, self, and others that have brought her to the spiritual community we all long for.

In what can only be described as a most impassioned and rewarding journey - for both the author to have experienced herself, and for the reader to begin to learn and understand - that author McNally has brought forth, we first discover how she grew up, and how at university she herself tried out many various faiths, but couldn’t find one whose image of God fit with her own innate sense of God.

She explains that to be a Quaker she still, even today, has to grow her understanding within in it, and that this book is her way of letting the quiet voice speaking within her out, reach out to the ones who need to hear it.

Thus in what is a most persuasive, clear cut and precise prose, Quaker Quicks: Simple Faith in a Complicated World is McNally’s way of taking the reader gently by the hand and walking them into her world, whilst at the same time proffering to them the Quaker experience with thoughtful descriptions of their ways of working and being in the world.

And appealing, nay captivating read from start to finish, she may well also admit that there are many paths to faith, and that this book describes just one of them, but at the same time she knows parts of the book are necessarily personal, most all of it is more general, and that she hopes the reader finds it all, at some level, to be of a general interest.

So come take this journey with her and explore the idea of perfection and how imperfections make us uniquely ourselves, perfectly suited to the work we are called to do.

About the Author - A psychologist by training, Kate McNally worked as a university professor and as a management consultant in the US and Canada. In 2001 she and her husband Dan Flynn moved to Belgium where she taught English to business people and became a Quaker.

She has represented Quakers at the Council of Europe and worked with the Quaker Council for European Affairs on projects related to forced migration, racism, and vicarious trauma among humanitarian aid workers.

She is an elder and associate tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in the UK where she teaches courses on anti-racism. She is a frequent contributor to the British magazine The Friend and is a certified chocolate taster and judge.

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