HOWARD MACY
Author of Stepping in the Light: Life in Joy and Power
H
oward Macy is currently Professor of Religion and Biblical Studies at
George Fox University. He taught previously at Earlham College and
Friends University. He has traveled widely, especially among Friends,
speaking and teaching at yearly meeting sessions, pastor’s conferences and other
retreat settings in a wide variety of yearly meetings. He served in pastoral ministry
at Smith Neck Friends Meeting and Reedwood Friends Church, as well as in
Youth and Christian Education service in the yearly meeting offices of Northwest
Yearly Meeting and Indiana Yearly Meeting. He was first recorded in the Friends
ministry while serving in New England and is now a recorded minister in
Northwest Yearly Meeting. He is a member of Newberg Friends Church.
The Macys became Quakers about 300 years ago on Nantucket Island, along with the Starbucks, Coffins
and lots of other folks. Thus, Howard is a DNA Quaker—you know, with the tiny hat hanging at the
end of his chromosomes. He grew up in a Quaker minister’s home and became a “convinced Friend”
during his college years at George Fox College (now University). After receiving his Bachelor’s degree
from George Fox, he went on to receive his M.A. from Earlham School of Religion and his Ph.D. from
Harvard University.
Howard and his wife Margi are the parents of two adult children, Nate and Hannah, both married,
and grandparents of three grandchildren, certified by an independent lab as the finest children and
grandchildren in the country. Howard enjoys music, photography and birding. He also enjoys growing
roses, which is far easier in Newberg, Oregon than it is in Kansas.
Among the Quakers he acknowledges as mentors and friends are: Arthur Roberts, Jack Willcuts, Milo
Ross, Elton Trueblood, Wilmer Cooper, Hal Cope, Richard Foster, Paul Anderson, Jan Wood, Tom
Mullen, John Punshon, David Wetherell, and the list goes on and on. Howard claims blessings beyond
measure in this regard.
Howard is the author of The Shalom of God, Rhythms of the Inner Life: Yearning for Closeness with God,
Laughing Pilgrims: Humor and the Spiritual Journey, and Red Nose Training Manual. He wrote the
Introduction to the revised edition of Thomas Kelly’s The Eternal Promise, as well as an Introduction
and commentary on the Psalms in the Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible. He has also written articles in
various magazines and journals.
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