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Recognizing Racism, Seeking Truth

[…] . and further[ed] the eradication of our nation’s northern slave history.” I was fascinated. I was dismayed. How could Quakers […]

Inga Erickson

June/July 2020 Books

The Kendal Sparrow: A Novel of Elizabeth Fletcher

[…] did, and then took the often dry and forgotten Quaker history and wove it into a living story or, as […]

Reviewed by Rausie Hobson

May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

[…] and a clear narrative style provide an in-depth look at history and context for the current political moment. I was […]

Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally

January 2019 Books

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

[…] trove of yearnings and pangs of heart that are the history of “Israel”: struggling with God. In the introduction, however, […]

Reviewed by Zae Asa Illo

News May 2018

[…] students awaits their senior year, and of the school’s “180-year history of educating young people of many nationalities, faiths, ethnicities, […]

Staff

News

News February 2018

[…] who have faced decades of human rights violations. Throughout our history, we have stood with communities facing oppression and violence […]

Staff

Online Features

Are Meeting Libraries Encumbrances?

Information is coming to us in different ways than it did in the first 350 years of Quaker history.

Carol Kitchen

Patricia Ann Pugh Reifsnyder

[…] Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) and received a master’s in history from University of Pennsylvania in 1951. That same year, […]

Staff

Features

Quaker Indian Boarding Schools

Facing our history and ourselves.

Paula Palmer

Friends in Business

A Quaker in Business Faces a Spiritual Crisis

[…] pharmaceutical industry. And the third was to explore the rich history of Quakers in business. Over time I got answers. […]

Karen Tibbals