Quaker Author Podcast

Lively interviews about Quaker thought and life today with authors from “Friends Journal,” the monthly Quaker magazine. Join our editors as they talk with authors about their articles and writing process.

You can subscribe to the Friends Journal YouTube channel and watch interviews going back to 2011 on our Quaker Author Podcast playlist.

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Interview with Stephen McNeil, author of “Proclaiming Love and Justice”

FJ Podcast: AFSC’s institutional response to LGB concerns began in 1975 when four staff and committee people sent out an… Stephen McNeil
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Interview with Lisa Graustein, author of “Gender, Sexuality, and Our Bodies”

FJ Podcast: The language we use to talk about our gender, sexuality, and bodies is useful when it can clarify,… Lisa Graustein
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Interview with Kody Gabriel Hersh, author of “A Gospel of Quaker Sexuality”

A wide-ranging discussion on Quaker bingo, joy, and sparkly suspenders. Kody Gabriel Hersh
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Interview with poet Bryan R. Monte, of “No One Ever Asks”

An interview with a March 2016 FJ poet. Bryan R. Monte
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Interview with Melody George, author of “Imagining a Trauma-informed Quaker Community”

Stigma and fear can make it difficult to see people as more than their disabilities. Melody George
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Interview with Peter Taylor, author of “The Zen of Quakerism”

Both George Fox and the Buddha experienced a transformative, liberating awareness. Peter Lane
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Interview with David Gross, author of “How Quaker War Tax Resistance Came and Went, Twice”

A history of a sometimes-forgotten Quaker witness. David Gross
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Interview with Ron McDonald, author of This Age of Insecurity

Our quiet pause can counteract a collective obsession with fights and power. Ron McDonald
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Interview with Kevin Rutledge, author of Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa

Read: Bird-dogging the Candidates in Iowa Subscribe to FJ’s podcast series. You can listen online from our website or subscribe to… Kevin Rutledge
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Author chat with Raed Jarrar on living in Baghdad and discovering the AFSC

We’re still considered among the lucky ones. We lost our country, our friends, and many of our belongings, but we… Raed Jarrar
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Interview with Lynn and Steve Newsom of Quaker House

A Friends Journal interview with the directors of Fayetteville, N.C.’s Quaker House. You can also watch the video of this interview.… Lynn and Steve Newsom
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Author chat with Ralph G. Steinhardt, on the humanity and Inhumanity of the Manhattan Project

What does Quakerism require of us when we hold someone in the Light? It is easy enough for me to… Ralph G. Steinhardt
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