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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

Andy Stanton Henry interview

Quaker author Andy Stanton-Henry's article, "All the Way Back to George Fox," appears in the October 2023 issue of Friends Journal.

Martin Kelley

A Season Most Unfair

By J. Anderson Coats. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023. 288 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $8.99/paperback (available in June); $10.99/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Sarah Hendess

Family

It’s strange how needing to feed the fawn is taking me up the same rough road I used to drive…

Helen Weaver Horn

Nancy Brock Beck

Beck—_Nancy Brock Beck, _ 98, on January 26, 2018, in Catonsville, Md., from causes related to Alzheimer’s disease. Nancy was…

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Lessons from My Quaker Ancestors and the People They Enslaved

A Friend studies the history of slavery and abolition in his family.

Os Cresson

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

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

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