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October 2014:Experiences of Friends of ColorAn Ode to My Quaker Father
Melissa Valentine
There is Hope
Gabbreell James
On Being Good
Sharon Goens鈥怋radley
A Journey Toward Eliminating Racism
Vanessa Julye
Viewpoint and Forum October 2014
Posted in: Forum, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color, Viewpoint
An Ode to My Quaker Father: Growing Up Black and Quaker
Growing up black and Quaker.
Melissa Valentine is a writer and acquisitions editor living in Oakland, Calif. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Mills College. In 2013, Melissa was a finalist for Glimmer Train鈥檚聽Family Matters writing contest. Her work has appeared in Sassafras Literary Magazine. She is currently at work completing her memoir, The Names of All the Flowers.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
Children from Across the Way
Poetry
Oskar Castro lives in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color, Poetry
There Is Hope
The search for a welcoming meeting
The mother of two great kids, Gabbreell James is a lifelong Quaker from Woodbury, N.J., and a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. She serves on Friends General Conference鈥檚 Central Committee and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Nominating Committee.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
How the Inner Light Creates an Abolitionist
Answering the racial stereotypes.
tonya thames taylor is a convinced Quaker who attends Fallowfield Meeting聽in聽Ercildoun, Pa. (of East Fallowfield聽Township). She works for the abolition of human trafficking.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
Extending the Table
Seeking a multicultural and multiracial faith community.
Paul Ricketts is a member of Fort Wayne (Ind.) Meeting and currently serves on American Friends Service Committee鈥檚 Community, Equality, and Justice Board Committee and its Midwest Executive Committee. He also serves on Friends General Conference鈥檚 Committee for Nurturing Ministries.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
The Social Justice Testimony
Joining a meeting does not purify us of racism.
Dwight L. Wilson, father of four sons and member of Ann Arbor (Mich.) Meeting, worked as an educator at Oakwood Friends School, Moorestown Friends School, and Friends School in Detroit. He also served as Friends General Conference general secretary and writes historical novels, including Sarah鈥檚 Song and Out of the Shadow of Darkness.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
On Being Good
Opening up those parts of ourselves we keep in the shadows.
Sharon Goens-Bradley works for the American Friends Service Committee and is the Healing Justice Program director in the Twin Cities office in Minnesota. Sharon has a master's degree in counseling psychology and has worked as a mediator, circle keeper, and restorative justice practitioner. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and daughter.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
People of Color Young Friends Minute
Young Friends minute
Posted in: Epistle, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
Features
Spiritual Simplicity by Andrew Huff
My Year of Living Eschatologically by Muriel Edgerton
Selling Out to Niceness by Ann Jerome
A Quaker School鈥檚 Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Erik Hanson
Slavery in the Quaker World by Katharine Gerbner
Poetry
Sabbath by Jessie Brown
Ancestry by Anna Murphey
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