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My Spiritual Journey

[…] predominantly black and Latino. I am now a member of Newton Meeting in Camden, N.J., which actually predates Philadelphia’s historic […]

Francine E. Cheeks

Joan Eloise Hammerly Tjossem

[…] at the family church near the Hammerly farm north of Newton, Iowa. Joan was born on June 25, 1921, the […]

Staff

Milestones November 2014

Birth Glines Vera—Mercy Glines Vera was born on May 9, 2014, to Melinda Glines and Arturo Vera of Strawberry Creek Meeting in […]

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Bayard Rustin at Swarthmore College

[…] gripping story, and shows Rustin in a light that his biographers often miss. Bayard Rustin after an arrest The background […]

Newton Garver

Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art

By J.H. Shapiro, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. Charlesbridge, 2015. 32 pages. $15.95/hardcover; $7.95/paperback; $6.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8. Buy on […]

Reviewed by Margaret Walden

Milestones October 2015

[…] Mangelsdorf Sr. and grew up in College Station, Tex., and Newton, Mass. The trumpet, which he learned to play as […]

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Letter to a Friend reading Reinhold Niebuhr

[…] these matters is impossible without doing so. That is, otherwise one begins to think like Niebuhr. Newton Garver East Concord, N.Y.

Newton Garver

One Response after Another

I appreciate Newton Garver’s review of my response to the Vatican, and I am also grateful for being welcomed by […]

Paul Anderson

A Young Friend’s Bookshelf: May 2012

Prayers for All Seasons             By Sophie Piper. Illustrated by Elena Temporin. Lion UK, 2011. 64 […]

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Bayard Rustin: Out from the Shadows of History

[…] a book that accepts the interpretive framework of an earlier biographer, John D’Emilio, who created a new model for understanding […]

Brian Ward