Friendly Competition?

May 2019

Student Voices
6th Annual Student Voices Project

Features
How I Found God in Competitive Sport by Jon Watts
The Hope for Collaboration over Competition by Mark Pratt-Russum
The Invisible Damage of Competition by Mary Jo Klingel

Poetry
Always the Challenge to Be Patient by Charles Bunner

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Student Voices Project

Student Voices Project 2019 Participants

Thank you to all of the 237 participants of the 6th annual Student Voices Project! Staff
Features

How I Found God in Competitive Sports

How can we explore the edge of our abilities? Jon Watts
Features

The Hope for Collaboration over Competition

Quakers can be co-conspirators, participants, creators, shapers, imaginers, and dreamers. Mark Pratt-Russum
Features

The Invisible Damage of Competition

Welcoming a new narrative in which we all are gifted. Mary Jo Klingel
Poetry

Always the Challenge to Be Patient

FJ Poetry: "Parking in the lot at work / early in the morning sun" Charles Bunner
Forum

Forum May 2019

Letters from our readers. Staff
News

News May 2019

Friends dual-language immersion school; Matthew Hisrich named ESR dean. Staff
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Quiet AND Shhh…God Is in the Silence

Quiet By Tomie dePaola. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.… Reviewed by Paul Buckley
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

How to Be a Lion

By Ed Vere. Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3 and up. Now… Reviewed by James Foritano
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Loretta’s Gift

By Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Alea Marley. Little Bee Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4 and… Reviewed by Anne Nydam
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Mela and the Elephant

By Dow Phumiruk, illustrated by Ziyue Chen. Sleeping Bear Press, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8.… Reviewed by Lisa Rand
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Salamander Sky

By Katy Farber, illustrated by Meg Sodano. Green Writers Press, 2018. 32 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–12. This unusual… Reviewed by Alison James
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