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Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

By Reviewed by Gwen Gosney Erickson on December 1, 2018

By Susan Zimet with Todd Hasak‐Lowy. Viking, 2018. 168 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. An accessible […]

Gwen Gosney Erickson is a librarian and archivist at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.

Posted in: December 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Christianity

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To Imagine Change through Many Voices

By Detmer Kremer on November 1, 2018

The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know.

Detmer Kremer is a writer and reader based out of the Netherlands and London, where he is currently attending graduate school. He is a former participant of Quaker Voluntary Service in Atlanta, and considers Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting one of his homes.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features

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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 Reluctant Minister

By Peterson Toscano on June 1, 2018

Reflections on performance art among Friends.

A Bible scholar, filmmaker, playwright, activist, and actor, Peterson Toscano playfully explores the serious worlds of LGBTQ issues, religion, and climate change. After spending 17 years attempting to “de-gay” himself through gay conversion therapy, he came out a quirky, queer Quaker who recognizes the power of storytelling, petersontoscano.com.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features

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Catherine Balderston Jones Gaskill

By Staff on January 1, 2018

Gaskill—Catherine Balderston Jones Gaskill, 90, of John Knox Village, Orange City, Fla., on July 27, 2017. Cathy was born on […]

Posted in: Milestones, Quaker Lifestyles

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Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals; Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on November 1, 2017

Hegemony How‐To: A Road Map for Radicals. By Jonathan Matthew Smucker. AK Press, 2017. 280 pages. $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Against Doom: A […]

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 (ICNC) in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two Pendle Hill pamphlets and a regular contributor to Minds of the Movement, an ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries, Uncategorized

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I have found that acceptance is key and welcoming change is how people can be happy

By Zora Carroll on May 1, 2017

Student Voices: ” Teaching one another our different ways is how communities can improve each individual’s life. This may sound […]

Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized

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Quaker Students’ Reading List for President Trump

By staff on May 1, 2017

24 book recommendations from the Student Voices Project.

Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project

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Welcoming the Strong Black Woman among Us

By Valerie Brown on March 1, 2017

The energy to appear strong and the socially imposed obligation to rise above it all can be exhausting.

Valerie Brown is a retreat leader, writer, leadership coach, and principal of Lead Smart Coaching, LLC, specializing in application and integration of mindfulness in daily life (leadsmartcoaching.com). She is ordained in the Order of Interbeing by Thich Nhat Hanh and is a member of Solebury (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: Features, Race and Anti-Racism

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