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Who Was Joy Hodgkin?

When my grandfather, Henry Hodgkin, migrated from England in 1930 to be the first director of studies at Pendle Hill,…

Meg Hodgkin Lippert

To Live Deliberately

Henry David Thoreau explained his famous sojourn at Walden Pond with the words, "I went to the woods because I…

Kirsten Backstrom

Flashes of Grace: 33 Encounters with God

By Patrick Henry. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2021. 318 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. The title is phrased in such…

Reviewed by William Shetter

The Christiana Resistance

In the early morning hours of September 11, 1851—ten years before the Civil War and exactly 150 years to the…

Brenda Walker Beadenkopf

Henry Cadbury, AFSC, and Haverford College

Even 1918 Quakers were a complicated mix of prophetic and pragmatic.

David Harrington Watt and James Krippner

Working for Peace for 96 Years

The witness of the American Friends Service Committee

Shan Cretin

World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey through the American Revolution

By Richard Godbeer. Yale University Press, 2019. 480 pages. $38/hardcover or eBook.

Reviewed by Larry Ingle

Personality and Place: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill

By Douglas Gwyn. Plain Press, 2014. 512 pages. $20/paperback; $15/eBook. [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Place-Life-Times-Pendle/dp/1500549363″]Buy on FJ Amazon Store[/button] Querencia (from the Spanish verb “querer”) is a metaphysical…

Reviewed by Valerie Brown

Christopher Henry Hodgkin

Hodgkin—Christopher Henry Hodgkin, 74, on June 11, 2018, at home in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Wash. Christopher was born…

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Civility Can Be Dangerous

In 1934, AFSC co-founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?

Lucy Duncan