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2023

Features

When You Know Better, You Do Better

Wrestling with America’s racist past. Vanessa Van Wagner
Features

Confronting the Legacy of Quaker Slavery

Inside the 339 Manumissions and Beyond Project. Avis Wanda McClinton et al.
Online Features

Hog Maw Epiphanies

“Mama and Daddy were farmers in Tennessee,” my friend shared... R. Scot Miller
Online Features

How Friends Can Make Reparations for Quaker-Run Indigenous Boarding Schools

Friends across the country are reckoning with historic Quaker involvement in Native American boarding schools. Sharlee DiMenichi
Poetry

The Divine Comes Disguised as Our Life.

"So often the path leads nowhere, backs up into brush, disappears, ends in a parking lot, butts into wire...." Anne Maren-Hogan
Poetry

Note to Myself

"Do not expect the Silence to always be silent. / Life is taking place outside this Meeting House..." Loré McLaren
Poetry

when it comes

"it comes a gentle / but insistent pressure..." Morrow Dowdle
Forum

Forum, January 2022

Letter from our readers. Staff
Reflection

Unbundled

I fly from the frigid city of Minneapolis, Minn., to Presque Isle, Maine. Kaylee Berg
January 2023 Books

The Quaker Scout: Testimony of a Civil War Non-Combatant of the Woodlawn Antislavery Colony

By Jonathan Roberts, presented by Martha Claire Catlin. Quaker Heron Press, 2022. 320 pages. $19.99/paperback. First published in 1891 in…

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

January 2023 Books

The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

By Resmaa Menakem. Central Recovery Press, 2022. 384 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $18.95/paperback or eBook. This unusual book is difficult to describe.…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

January 2023 Books

The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By Bill McKibben. Henry Holt and Company, 2022. 240 pages. $27.99/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Bill McKibben is best known as an…

Reviewed by Karie Firoozmand

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