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Top Ten Quaker Bestsellers 2019

By Staff on November 1, 2019

From the 2019 FGC Gathering at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Source: QuakerBooks of FGC

Posted in: Gambling

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Forum April 2019

By Staff on April 1, 2019

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Forum, Humor in Religion

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Breath of the Ancestors

By Paul Ricketts on February 1, 2018

The Fellowship of Friends of African Descent travels to Ghana’s Hill House Meeting.

Paul Ricketts is an avid reader, educator, and a member of Fort Wayne (Ind.) Meeting.

Posted in: Features, February 2018

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Quaker Bestsellers 2017

By Staff on September 1, 2017

The top ten best‐selling books from the 2017 FGC Gathering.

Source: QuakerBooks & More of FGC

Posted in: Features, September 2017, September 2017 Books

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Mass Incarceration and #BlackLivesMatter

By Madeline Schaefer on November 30, 2015

Quakers Connect as a Movement Builds

Madeline Schaefer worked as the Friends relations associate at American Friends Service Committee for two years from 2012 to 2014. She grew up attending Radnor (Pa.) Meeting outside of Philadelphia.

Posted in: December 2015: Economic Justice and Poverty, Features

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Discovering Fellowship among African American Friends

By Elmyra Powell on October 1, 2003

In 1992, shortly after I joined Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting and officially became a Quaker, it was announced on public […]

Elmyra (Amhara) Powell is a member of Orange Grove (Calif.) Meeting and the only Quaker in her entire extended family. A retired trial attorney and former student of theology who was eventually drawn to the mystical aspects of Quakerism, she pursues a ministry of encouraging and supporting other Friends in their ministries and in their spiritual lives.

Posted in: Features

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