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Staff Picks

A look at the formative books for staff members.

FJ Staff

What Are Schools For?

Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of efficiency and control.

Thomas B. Farquhar

Meredith Walton

Walton—Meredith Walton, 83, on June 11, 2020, peacefully at home in Springvale, Maine, surrounded by family and her life partner.…

Staff

Quaker Works October 2020

This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations* in the following categories: Advocacy Consultation, Support, and Resources Development Education…

Quaker Works

Strained, Breathless, and Hurried: Learning from the Life of Thomas R. Kelly

The breakneck pace of our over-scheduled lives often serves as an obstacle to the cultivation of spiritual wisdom. For some,…

Chad Thralls

Friends World Committee for Consultation (Europe and Middle East Section)

October 2020 Update

Quaker Works

Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By Anne Lamott. Riverhead Books, 2017. 176 pages. $20/hardcover; $22/paperback; $10.99/eBook. “I’m not sure I even recognize the ever-presence of…

Reviewed by Carl Blumenthal

Applying Quaker Thought to Food

Many of the world’s faiths and religious organizations make faith-based eating easy for their believers: Don’t eat pork. Don’t eat…

ShaunChavis

The End of the Quaker Handshake?

The history and future of one of Friends’ most ingrained practices.

Stephen W. Angell

The Sound of Silence

By Katrina Goldsaito, illustrated by Julia Kuo. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Alison James