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The Unifying Vision of Quakers

When people ask you what Quakers believe, what do you tell them? Many Friends re-spond in one of two unhelpful…

Thomas H. Jeavons

Civil Discourse in Turbulent Times

Out of this current round of political-economic turbulence arises the query of when and how to speak truth to power.…

Bob Morse

Visit to Vietnam

On December 11, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words: "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and…

Brynne Howard

Outreach Is Just Another Word for Sharing

"We are also to be witnesses for God, and to propagate his life in the world, to be instruments in…

Kathy Hersh

April Forum 2012

Fetishization of biblical passages I was glad to see David Zarembka’s letter about African Friends in your February issue. I…

Oscar Luther Bagley Jr.

Bagley—Oscar Luther Bagley Jr., 94, on March 30, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. Oscar was born on January 6, 1930, to…

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Poet Lynn Martin reads “Weather Is What She Has to Say”

FJ Poetry reading: In L.A. it opens and drags down whole buildings. Here, in Vermont, the woods resound / with the crack of trees under ice. No one is safe: / cars have been sliding off the road on broken bridges, / on slick roads black with cold.

Lynn Martin

Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America AND Hypocrisy, Racism, and Self-Interest on the Path to Reparations: Quaker Complicity with Slavery (1657–1776) and White Supremacy

By Joel Edward Goza. William B. Eerdmans, 2024. 383 pages. $34.99/hardcover or eBook. By Mary Watkins. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 489), 2024. 38 pages.…

Reviewed by Michele Sands

The Green Baby Swing

By Thomas King, illustrated by Yong Ling Kang. Tundra Books, 2024. 40 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7. It…

Reviewed by Alison James

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