By Francisco CantĆŗ. Riverhead Books, 2018. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback (available February 2019); $12.99/eBook. Almost four years ago, I reviewed [ā¦]
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
David Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world history. He is currently writing a book about the Holocaust for young adults.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds
By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker [ā¦]
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
A Quaker Perspective on Hope
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
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
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. [ā¦]
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
Tapping a Viral Energy
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
Writing Opp: Meetings and Money (closed)
How do we spend money on ourselves? What is the role of money in our meetings? How do we decide [ā¦]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Stewardship Brought to the Streets of Our Capital
Iāve been surrounded by Quakerism since I was about three years old. From preschool through fifth grade, I attended Goshen [ā¦]
Jonathan Kornegay, Grade 9, Westtown School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
A Loving Quaker Journey to BDS
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
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; [ā¦]
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
Living in Dark Times
By Rex Ambler. Pendle Hill, 2017. 27 pages. $7/Pamphlet. Reading the title of this pamphlet calls up images of the [ā¦]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: February 2018, February 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
June/July 2020: Membership and Friends
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An Awkward Pause by Debbie B. Ramsey
Transcending Geography by An interview with Francisco Burgos and Traci Hjelt Sullivan
Spiritual Practices for the Pandemic by Mathilda Navias
Membership and Friends
Growing Roots from a Distance by Nikki Holland
Drawing Circles, Not Lines by Sarah Katreen Hoggatt
Lapsed, Released, Let Go, Discontinued by Carolyn HillesāPilant
With Just the Door Ajar by Caroline Morris
Are You Playing Your Religionāgames by Quaker Rules? by Rhiannon Grant
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Mixed Flock by Ann McNeal
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