Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals. By Jonathan Matthew Smucker. AK Press, 2017. 280 pages. $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Against Doom: A […]
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Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals; Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual
Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and currently serves as the manager of academic initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two Pendle Hill pamphlets and a regular contributor to Minds of the Movement, an ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries, UncategorizedToward a More Balanced Analysis of Zionism
Steve Chase, in his Reflection “Recovering a Forgotten Zionist Vision for Peace?” in the April issue of Friends Journal, offers […]
Allan Kohrman, a retired professor of history and English, is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting. His pamphlet Quakers and Jews is available from QuakerBooks of FGC.
Posted in: Features
Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness
By Steve Chase. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (Number 431), 2015. 36 pages. $7/pamphlet. This Pendle Hill pamphlet was based on a […]
Born into a Jewish family, Harvey Gillman has been a seeker for most of his life. As outreach secretary for British Quakers, he wrote A Light That Is Shining. Other works include, A Minority of One and Consider the Blackbird. He has led workshops and lectured in many places in the Quaker world. He is a member of Brighton Meeting in England.
Posted in: August 2015 Books, August 2015: The Effects of War, Quaker Book Reviews
Quaker Perspectives in Higher Education
Edited by Donn Weinholtz, Jeffrey Dudiak, and Donald A. Smith. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2014. 293 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. […]
Michael S. Glaser is a professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a recipient of the college’s Homer L. Dodge Award for excellence in teaching. He is most closely associated with Patuxent Meeting in Calvert County, Md.
Posted in: June/July 2014: Concepts of God, June/July 2015 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Letters: My Journey to the Quaker Movement
A letter to a fictional seeker.
This is the first chapter of Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction To The Quaker Way, which includes true stories about Quaker faith and practice by a member of the Quaker Quest national training team written in letters to a fictional seeker. Letters was published earlier this year by QuakerPress of FGC, and has been selected as Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s “One Book, One Yearly Meeting” selection.
Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and the national Quaker Quest traveling team. He is the founding director of the environmental studies master's program in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability at Antioch University New England and a local activist in the international Transition Town Movement. He will be giving the 2013 Stephen Cary Lecture at Pendle Hill in Wallingford, Pa., on May 21, 2013.
Posted in: December 2012: Hospitality, Features
Trouble in the Tribe; We Will Not Be Silenced; On AntiSemitism
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel By Dov Waxman. Princeton University Press, 2016. 316 pages. $29.95/Hardcover; […]
Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and currently serves as the Manager of Academic Initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he is the author of the Pendle Hill Pamphlet Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights (reviewed in our October 2017 issue). He is also a regular contributor to Minds of the Movement, an ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance.
Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land
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325 years of Quakereducation, Australian Quaker biographies, Palestine recognition, and appointments.
Posted in: News, November 2014: Books and Writing
Reclaiming Judaism From Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation
Edited by Carolyn L. Karcher. Olive Branch Press, 2019. 400 pages. $20/paperback.
Steve Chase is the Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.)’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee liaison to the local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and its Occupation Free DC campaign to stop DC police from training with military occupation forces in Israel.
Posted in: February 2020, February 2020 Book Reviews, Quaker Book Reviews
Money and Soul: Quaker Faith and Practice and the Economy
By Pamela Haines. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 80 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.
Steve Chase is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and the Academic Initiatives manager at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Singing “Lord of the Dance?”: Reflections on Anti‐ Semitism and Loving One Another
An old controversy among Friends resurfaced this summer on the online Quaker Outreach Forum on Yahoo Groups. One member posted […]
Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and serves on Friends General Conference's national Quaker Quest Traveling Team.
Posted in: FeaturesMaxine Kaufman-Lacusta is a member of Vancouver (B.C.) Meeting and the Ahavat Olam synagogue. She is an associate member (for Israel/ Palestine concerns) of Canadian Friends Service Committee.
Janet Minshall is a member and former clerk of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and has served as co-editor of Friendly Woman magazine.
Free Polazzo is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting, has served as assistant and recording clerk for Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association, and is currently serving on its Faith and Practice Revision and Outreach committees. He was born in Naples, Italy before the end of World War II and was raised as a Jew.
Joy Weaver, who grew up Jewish, has been a member of the Religious Society of Friends since 1969. She is a member and co-clerk of Conscience Bay Meeting in St. James, N.Y. She is the former publisher of the Old Foundations newsletter.