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Allen’s Neck Meeting Clambake Celebrates 125 Years

A century's-worth of adaptations in a Quaker meeting's summer celebration inadvertently documents ecosystem change. With podcast, author chat, and additional photos.

Joseph E. Ingoldsby

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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Bruce E. Knox

Knox—Bruce E. Knox, 89, on November 2, 2020, following an extended illness, at Foxdale Village in State College, Pa. Bruce…

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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation

By Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman. Avery, 2016. 288 pages. $26/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. “Based on our scientific evidence, I…

Reviewed by Phila Hoopes

Mary E. Starkweather-White

Starkweather-White—Mary E. Starkweather-White, 67, on July 9, 2019, all too suddenly. Mary was born on October 18, 1951, in Wilmington,…

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My Spiritual Journey

My spiritual journey is—to borrow a phrase from the Beatles— "a long and winding road" that led to the Religious…

Francine E. Cheeks

Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together

Edited by Charles E. Moore. Plough Publishing House, 2021. 396 pages. $18/paperback; $10/eBook. If we want Jesus’s ethical teachings all…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

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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Alaskan Quakers apologize to Alaskan Natives for Indian boarding schools

On September 30, 2022—during an event for Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance for the harms caused by the…

FJ News Editors

Reparations and Transgenerational Healing

A White Quaker’s Path

Lucy Duncan with editorial support from Robert Peagler