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January 2016
Quakers and the Political Process

Bird‐dogging the Candidates
Kevin Rutledge
Why Friends Are Needed in Politics
Diane Randall
This Age of Insecurity
Ron McDonald
Let’s Grow Together
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Interview with Ron McDonald, author of This Age of Insecurity

By Ron McDonald on January 30, 2016

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power.


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Interview with Kevin Rutledge, author of Bird‐dogging the Candidates in Iowa

By Kevin Rutledge on January 26, 2016

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Kevin Rutledge is the grassroots education coordinator with American Friends Service Committee’s Presidential Campaign Project in Iowa and has deep family roots in Quaker activism for peace and social justice.


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Among Friends: Progress in the Direction of Love

By Gail Whiffen Coyle on January 1, 2016

An introduction to the issue by our associate editor.

Gail Whiffen Coyle is associate editor of Friends Journal.


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Forum, January 2016

By Staff on January 1, 2016

Letters from our readers.


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Viewpoint: Freeing the Oppressors

By Gracia Fay Ellwood on January 1, 2016

A response to the Wall Street Journal op‐ed headlined “Quakers: No Friends of Israel”

Gracia Fay Ellwood lives in Pasadena, Calif.


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Bird‐dogging the Candidates

By Kevin Rutledge on January 1, 2016

Citizen volunteers expose hidden corporate influence.

Kevin Rutledge is the grassroots education coordinator with American Friends Service Committee’s Presidential Campaign Project in Iowa and has deep family roots in Quaker activism for peace and social justice.


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Diane Randall presenting the 2015 Edward F. Snyder Peace Award for National Legislative Leadership to Senator Richard Durbin (IL). Photo courtesy of FCNL.

Why Friends Are Needed in Politics

By Diane Randall on January 1, 2016

We can avoid partisan rhetoric to speak and act on the truth we know.

Diane Randall serves as executive secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation and worships with Friends across the country. She is a member of Hartford (Ct.) Meeting, sojourning with her husband, Roger Catlin, at Langley Hill Meeting in McLean, Va.


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Underground Beloved

By Alexander Levering Kern on January 1, 2016

FJ Poetry: “It’s possible of course to fall in love each morning
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Alexander Levering Kern lives in Somerville, Mass.


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The author (center) at FCNL's Quaker Public Policy Institute and Lobby Day in Washington, D.C., November 2015.

Political Change through the Power of Stories

By Joey Hartmann-Dow on January 1, 2016

A Friend finds new confidence in her voice as a citizen.

Joey Hartmann-Dow is an artist and activist living in Philadelphia, Pa. She is an organizer with FCNL's Advocacy Corps, bringing community members together to communicate with members of Congress about the urgent need for bipartisan climate action. Joey is a member of Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa. Follow her work for climate change at earth4president.tumblr.com.


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A Quaker Voice in Indiana

By Staff on January 1, 2016

An interview with Grace Miller of Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation.

Grace Miller was born and raised in Indianapolis, Ind., (“Hoosier true through and through”) and grew up attending Irvington Meeting in Indianapolis. She believes that folks from Indiana are kind, loving, and warm people who are also serious and hard working. Grace was interviewed by Friends Journal associate editor Gail Whiffen Coyle.


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