Paul Buckley is a member of Clear Creek Meeting in Ohio Valley YM. He is a former clerk of that YM. He is also the author of many Quaker books (including several in this library) and articles in Friends Journal.
Brian Drayton is a recorded minister and member of Weare (NH) in New England YM. His books include On Living with a Concern for Gospel Ministry, Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement (with William Taber Jr), and Messages to Meetings. He blogs at Amor Vicat: May Love Have the Victory!. Brian is a member of the Ministry & Eldership Resource Group of New England YM.
Deborah Fisch is a member and recognized elder in Paulina Meeting of Iowa YM (Conservative). She is a respected writer and speaker with a special concern for supporting Friends called to gospel and traveling ministry.. She served as the staff coordinator for Friends General Conference’s Traveling Ministries Program from from 1998-2015.
Jenny Isbell-Shin is a member of Mt Toby Meeting in New England YM. Jenny actively calls out and supports the ministry of others. She also has a ministry under the care of Mt Toby Meeting with a special concern for spiritual formation and gospel ministry. Jennie is also a member of the Ministry & Eldership Resource Group of New England YM.
Marcelle Martin is a member of Swarthmore Meeting in Philadelphia YM. She has been a frequent teacher of Quakerism at Pendle Hill, for School of the Spirit and for the Nurturing Faithfulness program of New England YM. She has written frequently for Friends Journal and is the author Our Life Is Lov The Quaker Spiritual Journey.:She blogs at A Whole Heart: Finding the Way of Love & Truth.
Stuart Masters is a member of Brtiain YM and lives in Birmingham. He was until recently a tutor at Woodbrooke and continues to teach through Woodbrooke part-time. He has written a new book called The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love in Truth, whuch was published by Bloomsbury in November 2025. You can watch his 2026 Swarthmore Lecture to Britain YM on Tangled Roots: Navigating the Complex Legacy of Early Quakers on the Woodbrooke website.
Rebecca Mays is a member of Westtown Meeting in Philadelphia YM. She served as the publications director of Pendle Hill for a number of years. She received an MA in Religious Studies from Temple University with a special interes in Muslimi and Religous Studies. She worked for a decade at Temple’s Dialog Institute and edited their Journal of Ecumenical Studies. She brings a special interest and experience in interfaith issues and universalism to the library. She is also a member of the board of the School of the Spirit.
Matt Rosen is a member of Stillwater Meeting in Ohio YM. He lives in Oxford, England, and is part of a planning roup of Young Adult Friends that has organized three gatherings of Young Adult Friends at Jordans Meeting. He has traveled extensively in the ministry in the UK having visited around eighty different meetings in the past several years.
Janet Scott is a member of Jesus Lane Meeting in Cambridge UK and Britain YM. She gave the 1980 Swarthmore Lecture on the subject What Canst Thou Say? and has written many other books and pamphlets for British Friends. She was one of the main organizers of the International Theological Conference of Quaker Women, held in 1991 at Woodbrooke in Birmingham UK.