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Books February 2014

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI By Betty Medsger. Knopf, 2014. 608 pages. $29.95/hardcover. Reviewed by…

Various

Sam Ely: Building a Community Land Trust in Maine

Larry Lack

From the Archives: Book Reviews of Young Adult Friends’ Picks

Out of the 14 books (and 1 blog) recommended by young adult Friends in the November 2013 issue, 5 titles…

Staff

Recollections of a World War II Conscientious Objector

During World War II, 12,000 men from as many as 200 religious groups received the conscientious objector classification, “4-E,” under…

Larry Miller

The 'Honest to God' Debate and Friends

The paperback Honest to God, by John A. T. Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich in England, has apparently sold more quickly…

Larry Miller

Racial Wounding at the Gathering

I arrived in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois, excited to be attending Friends General Conference’s Gathering and looking forward to a week filled…

Vanessa Julye

May Milestones 2012

Ackerman—Dorothy Hopkirk Ackerman, 90, on March 10, 2011, at home in Minneapolis, Minn. Dorothy was born on October 23, 1920,…

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Books November 2012

Our annual extensive selection of books

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Forum, September 2017

Letters from our readers: Overworked caregivers; Minding our Light?; More listening, less explaining.

Staff

Forum November 2013

Letters from our readers. This month: more stories of Richard Nixon; responses from the humorous texting piece; Quaker interest in divestment from fossil fuels increases; Quakers and atonement; children and parents in meeting; and growing Quakerism.

Staff