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Who Turned on the Lights? A Reflection from Within

One of my worst recurring nightmares is that when I walk into a room and flick on the light switch,…

KeithRMaddock

The Gift of Thinking Differently

Larry was a jerk. Everyone thought so, though we never used that word. We called him eccentric, cantankerous, or rough…

James Mulholland

Reimagining a Yearly Meeting

Indiana Yearly Meeting has recently split, and we’re in the early stages of setting up a new association of Friends.…

Joshua Brown

My Year of Cancer

At a recent gathering of Friends, the discussion leader asked us each to describe a joy we had brought with…

Paul Hamell

May Forum 2012

Lucretia, I wish I had known you! For twenty years I’ve helped tend the grave of Quaker abolitionist and women’s…

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Reading 50 Years of FRIENDS JOURNAL

I think that I am something of an oddity among the readers of Friends Journal. I grew up in a…

Thomas D. Hamm

Milestones September 2013

Milestones of Abby Atwater Hadley, Charles H. Harker Jr., Warren Prentice Henegar, Marianne Stephanie Adler Longstreet, Harold Adin Nomer Jr., and Marshall Ross Vidrine.

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Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something from Everything

By Ashley Bryan, photographs edited by Rich Entel. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. 80 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Anne Nydam

Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

By Daniel Hunter. The Veterans of Hope Project, 2015. 71 pages. $10/paperback; $4/eBook. A number of yearly meetings have been…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

A Non-Quaker's Quaker Perspective

It is ironic that most of us who benefit from a Quaker education are not Quaker. As a middle school…

Michael Zimmerman