Humor in Religion

The Meeting House by Mark Reigelman II, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Mass. Photo © Sarah Nichols. Read more in our introduction to this issue.

April 2019

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Features
Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry O’Regan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman

Poetry
I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
Blessing by Ken Gibble

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Among Friends, Forum, Witness, Lives of Friends, Books, Viewpoint, Milestones, Quaker Works, Classifieds, Meeting Listings

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Among Friends

Abbotts to the World’s Costello

Our introduction to the April issue on Humor in Religion. Gabriel Ehri
Features

Fox News: George Fox Speaking

Our favorite news anchor goes on location with Will "The Quill" Penn and an assortment of dubiously fact-checked historical figures. Donald W. McCormick
Features

Laughing for the Wary

Humor can help build religious community but it can also hurt and cause division. Howard R. Macy
Features

Finding Lightness in the Light

We Quakers have an image problem when it comes to fun and frivolity. Kerry O'Regan
Features

Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition

What's the difference between a Mennonite and a Quaker? Andrew J. Bergman
Poetry

I Have Learned

FJ Poetry: All these months I have made progress... Marion Goldstein
Poetry

Blessing

FJ Poetry: To have lived some of my lifetime / consonant with great souls... Ken Gibble
Forum

Forum April 2019

Letters from our readers. Staff
Witness

An American Casualty of U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran

A Quaker activist learns first-hand about the medical costs of U.S. sanctions. David Hartsough
Lives of Friends

Our Peace Testimony and Taxes

It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a community to support a person of any age. Sister Alegría del Señor
April 2019 Books

Women’s Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets

By Margaret Fell, edited by Jane Donawerth and Rebecca M. Lush. Iter Press and the Arizona Center for Medieval and… Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee
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