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Book Clubs of Friends Meetings

[…] Journal Discussion Group of St. Petersburg (Fla.) Meeting Submitted by Peter Crockett Logistics: We meet in a member’s home once a month […]

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In Celebration of Bivocational Ministry

The challenge of carrying three jobs https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/In-Celebration-of-Biovocational-Ministry-by-Robim-Mohr.mp3 How many jobs do you have? For much of my adult life, I […]

Robin Mohr

Staff Picks

[…] tiger. The book chronicles the boy’s trials and survival over 227 days at sea and the consequences of his return […]

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On Paying Attention

Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with […]

Noah Baker Merrill

Separation of Church and State

[…] me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket […]

George L. Alexander

U.S. Quakers: Hybrid Corn?

Years ago I heard our gifted Quaker economist-philosopher-poet Kenneth Boulding compare U.S. Quakers to hybrid corn. His interesting observation was […]

William Edgerton

In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

[…] to and galvanized Black teenagers during segregation. As background music, Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” echoes through each chapter, a grim […]

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

By Wes Moore with Erica L. Green. One World, 2020. 320 pages.  $28/hardcover; $18/paperback; $4.99/eBook.   In April of 2015, I […]

Reviewed by Rosalie Dance