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Otto Theodor (Ted) Benfey

[…] and Guilford, retiring as the Dana Professor of Chemistry and History of Science, Emeritus. At Haverford in 1949, he married […]

Staff

Where the Light Comes to Meet Us

[…] to the cosmos. While I don’t know much about the history of my White family, I do remember sharing an […]

Leticia Garcia Tiwari

Move Toward the Suffering

[…] help to them, though I mostly processed my own emotional history and the mental narratives that I had, mostly unwittingly, […]

Nathan Kleban

If Quakers Were (Also) Witches

[…] are clearly defined, separate entities, each with its own distinct history, tradition, and practice. Quakerism has that to some extent. […]

Sara Jolena Wolcott

The Quaker World

[…] tendencies among Friends, telling surprising stories of empire in Quaker history alongside stories of personal frailty and victory. Bravely life-affirming […]

Reviewed by Windy Cooler

Who Gets to Be Safe?

[…] essay, “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that Black history, and the history of enslavement, cannot be disentangled from […]

Katharine Jager

Love New Friends but Keep the Old

Every new generation of Friends remakes Quaker history to address the needs of its own era. When Quakers lost political […]

John Pitts Corry

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

[…] and raised in Texas and had multiple years of Texas history. In the fifth grade (1960), I found Mobil Oil’s […]

Reviewed by J. E. McNeil

Quaker Works October 2021

[…] about Africa–Europe relations and the contemporary repercussions of centuries-long shared history.The program also contributed to a seminar on “Confronting racism […]

Quaker Works

Okay, Boomer, It’s Time to Fund Reparations

[…] be antiracists is a radical choice in the face of history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness.” We all […]

Zona Douthit