Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power.
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
FJ Books January 2016
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Interview with Ron McDonald, author of This Age of Insecurity
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Interview with Kevin Rutledge, author of Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa
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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
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
Letters from our readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of Quaker information: every Friends Journal ever published, going back […]
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Viewpoint: Freeing the Oppressors
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
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.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and the Political Process
Why Friends Are Needed in Politics
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
FJ Poetry: “It’s possible of course to fall in love each morning…” 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library […]
Alexander Levering Kern lives in Somerville, Mass.
Posted in: Poetry, Quakers and the Political Process
Political Change through the Power of Stories
A Friend finds new confidence in her voice as a citizen. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A year of Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world’s largest online library of […]
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
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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