News, May 2017

News of Friends: Philadelphia Young Adults reenvision lecture series; FLGBTQC heads into year of jubilee; QuEST appoints new director.

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Online Features

A Quaker on a Commune

A Friend finds inspiration while visiting a long-standing intentional community.

Hayley Hathaway

Online Features

Sweet Ol’ Camp Tunes

The sound of guitars, pianos, and voices of camp.

Kyle Weinman

Online Features

Remembering a Workcamp in Tennessee

A Friend recounts an AFSC workcamp in 1949.

George H. Kurz

AFSC’s Centennial: April full issue access

Members can download full PDF or read any article online.

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Among Friends: Happy Birthday, AFSC

Our introduction to the issue celebrating 100 years of the American Friends Service Committee.

Martin Kelley

Forum April 2017

Letters from our readers: upcoming issue announcement, a full year of Trump?!?, teaching peace, Friend without a meeting, kudos to QuakerSpeak.

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Features

Cultivating Peace in Troubled Times

Shan Cretin looka back at 100 years of Quaker action and witness.

Shan Cretin

Features

Facing Fascism, McCarthyism, and the New Jim Crow in 2017

The times we find ourselves in are extremely serious.

Laura Magnani

Features

The Courageous Many

Learn the many ways AFSC engages with Friends today.

Lucy Duncan

Features

Henry Cadbury, AFSC, and Haverford College

Even 1918 Quakers were a complicated mix of prophetic and pragmatic.

David Harrington Watt and James Krippner

Features

An interview with Joyce Ajlouny

Meet AFSC's incoming general secretary.

Martin Kelley

Poetry

Death of a Patient

FJ Poetry: "I heard the news on a snowy day…"

Geoff Knowlton

Poetry

Making my Bed

FJ Poetry: "I unfolded the map of the pillowcase…"

Bob Elmendorf

Faith and Practice

Preparing for Intimacy with God

Faith and Practice: Leaving worship in a state of discontent.

Elliott Robertson

News

News April 2017

News of Friends. Controversy over Palestinian speaker at Friends' Central School; AFSC appoints new general secretary; Northwest Yearly Meeting splits; Cookeville (Tenn.) Meeting peace initiatives.

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Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…