News December 2018

In the news: Middletown Friends recognized unmarked slave burials; Quaker astrophysicist, passed over for Nobel, receives $3-million breakthrough prize.

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November 2018 Full Issue Access

Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

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Among Friends

The Book You’re Looking For

Among Friends: Our introduction to the November books issue.

Martin Kelley

Features

To Imagine Change through Many Voices

The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know.

Detmer Kremer

Features

The Light Will Rip You Up

Navigating anorexia with Simone Weil

Caroline Morris

Features

Genesis: Outer Space and Inner Light

Outer space and Inner Light

John A. Minahan

Features

Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

A ninth-grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach.

Robert Stephen Dicken

Poetry

Communion

FJ Poetry: "Mean cheese bread / snuggly sandwiched into bags"

Nancy L. Bieber

Poetry

If I Had Grown In Some Generous Place

FJ Poetry: "If I had grown in some generous place—"

Kat Griffith

Forum November 2018

Letters from our readers and news from Friends Journal.

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Grace Kyoko Noda

Noda—Grace Kyoko Noda, 98, on March 14, 2018, at her home in Davis, Calif., peacefully. Grace was born on January…

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Uncategorized

6th Annual Student Voices Project

2018-2019 Theme: Friendly Competition? Now accepting submissions! Deadline is Feb 11, 2019.

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October 2018 Full Issue Access

Members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

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Our Treasure and Our Collective Heart

An introduction to the October issue on Meetings and Money.

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Seeking Solid Ground in the Money Swamp

A Friends meeting looks beyond rainy days to build a better relationship with money.

Pamela Haines

Features

A Living Tension

Quaker values and money.

Jeffery W. Perkins

Eleanor Barrett on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

John Dickinson’s name was used by his friend Benjamin Rush to create a new school in…
Marcelle Martin on Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson

I’m glad to know about John Dickinson, the “Pennsylvania Farmer” who wrote wildly popular pro-democratic and…
Stephen on Lynette Love: Education and Empowerment in Post-Civil War America

What a powerful feature on Lynette Love! Your conversation in the Friends Journal shines a necessary…
Eve Gutwirtth on A People Who Dwell in the Living Stream

Silence is a sublime state that we westeners find difficult to achieve but I did a…