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Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

By Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter on October 1, 2018

By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker […]

Cameron McWhirter is a journalist and the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America. He is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting and has served on the Board of Trustees of Friends Publishing Corporation, publisher of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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A Quaker Perspective on Hope

By Kate Davies on September 1, 2018

Hopelessness and burnout lead a Friend to rediscover an archaic form of hope.

Kate Davies is a member of Whidbey Island (Wash.) Meeting and author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. She is also senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute and professor emeritus at Antioch University.

Posted in: Features, September 2018

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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Reviewed by Lauren Brownlee on September 1, 2018

By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books

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Tapping a Viral Energy

By Robert Henry on August 1, 2018

Lifting the bondage, embracing the future, and making Quakerism a viable reality once more.

Robert Henry is pastor of Indianapolis (Ind.) First Friends Meeting. He is a speaker, activist, neighborhood collaborator, and avid artist. He lives in Fishers, Ind., with his wife and three boys.

Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism

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Stewardship Brought to the Streets of Our Capital

By Jonathan Kornegay on May 1, 2018

I’ve been surrounded by Quakerism since I was about three years old. From preschool through fifth grade, I attended Goshen […]

Jonathan Kornegay, Grade 9, Westtown School

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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A Loving Quaker Journey to BDS

By Lauren Brownlee on March 1, 2018

A Friend struggles to find a position on the Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement.

Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee and the D.C. Peace Team. She is also on the steering committee for the Quaker Palestine Israel Network.

Posted in: Features, Quakers and the Holy Land

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Trouble in the Tribe; We Will Not Be Silenced; On AntiSemitism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on March 1, 2018

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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