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Milestones, September 2012

Obituaries for Martin Michael Beer, Richard Sternoff Beyer, Elizabeth Koop Buck, Walter Henry Glass, Dale K Miller, and Armin Louis Sanger, Jr.

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A Quaker Call to Abolition and Creation

Facing the slavery roots of the U.S. prison system.

Lucy Duncan

Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine

By Alice Rothchild. Just World Books, 2017. 283 pages. $19.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Steve Feldman’s book Compartments, the well-known dermatologist chronicles…

Reviewed by Max Carter

Illinois Yearly Meeting Reports

Alice (with Smith Uyttebrouck

Taking Heart

What climate activists can learn from the movement to abolish slavery. With author chat.

Marcia Cleveland

Milestones August 2013

Bentman—Raymond Bentman, 87, at home with his partner, Louis DelSoldo, on March 28, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pa., of heart failure.…

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Language and Friends Witness

In our era of mass media, the world is not just "too much with us," as the poet William Wordsworth…

Harold Branam

Quakerism, Earth-Centered Spirituality, and the Goddess

My earliest memory is of standing at the kitchen sink in an old farmhouse in Iowa where my grandmother held…

Heather Sowers

Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, 2018. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 9–12. The…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Milestones May 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.

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