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June/July 2019: Food Choices


Cover photo courtesy of Craig Jensen and Sun Moon Farm in Rindge, N.H. Read more at “Choose a Resilient Community”


Features
The Ministry of Quaker Farmers by Rachel Van Boven

Feeding Young Adults with a Taste of Abundance by Emily Provance and Niadwynwen Thomas

Vegetarianism in Quaker History by John Sniegocki

Butcher Hogs for Sale by Dayna Baily

A Vegan Offers Three Reasons for Hope by Margaret Fisher

Letting the Higher Power Do It by Anonymous


Online Features
Chose a Resilient Community by Craig Jensen and Suzanna Schell

The Great Food Transformation by Elizabeth Root

Food Choices, Relationship, and God by Lorene Ludy

Interrupting the Family Barbecue by Jim Ross

A Critique of Health Consciousness by Caroline Morris


Poetry
Aspect of Loss by Karie Firoozmand
Turkey Vultures by Charles Weld


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Poetry

Aspect of Loss

FJ Poetry: "Can it be that after a while / When love goes on but the beloved has gone..." Karie Firoozmand
Poetry

Turkey Vultures

FJ Poetry: "If someone gets up with the birds, they do notget up with the turkey vultures who sleep late..." Charles Weld

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News, June-July 2019

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June/July 2019 Books

Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box

By Angela P. Dodson. Center Street, 2017. 448 pages. $26/hardcover; $15.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. The upcoming 2020 centennial of women’s suffrage in… Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson
June/July 2019 Books

Faith and Experience in Education: Essays from Quaker Perspectives

Edited by Don Rowe and Anne Watson. Trentham Books, 2018. 256 pages. $41.95/paperback or eBook. As an early childhood teacher,… Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi
June/July 2019 Books

Becoming a Welcoming Church AND Scrappy Church

Becoming a Welcoming Church By Thom S. Rainer. B&H Publishing Group, 2018. 128 pages. $12.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Scrappy Church: God’s Not… Reviewed by David Etheridge
June/July 2019 Books

The Monk Within: Embracing a Sacred Way of Life

By Beverly Lanzetta. Blue Sapphire Books, 2018. 400 pages. $19/paperback; $9.99/eBook. One of the more noteworthy movements in current spirituality… Reviewed by William Shetter
June/July 2019 Books

Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos

Edited by Angela Dews. Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. 288 pages. $21.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Conscience or consciousness? While the demands of conscience and… Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal
June/July 2019 Books

Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture

By Daniel Demeter. Just World Books, 2016. 304 pages. $49.99/hardcover; $29.99/paperback. While I do know a fair amount about photography,… Reviewed by Brent Bill
June/July 2019 Books

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

By Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Rebecca Green. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 208 pages. $20/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. A memoir has the power… Reviewed by Pamela Haines

RuthEmma Hare Hancock

Hancock—RuthEmma Hare Hancock, 93, on August 9, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. Ruth was born on April 3, 1925, in Johnson…
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