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Student Voices Project

Quaker Students’ Reading List for President Trump

24 book recommendations from the Student Voices Project. staff
Features

Welcoming the Strong Black Woman among Us

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

News, October 2016

News from Friends.

Pursuing Justice Requires Boldness

What do you really want when you invite a person of color to the table? Nekima Levy-Pounds
Features

Climate Change Is Our Lunch Counter Moment

The challenge of climate justice. Shelley Tanenbaum
Features

26 Weekends at Columbia County Jail: Part Two

A Quaker's principled jailing results in a journal from behind bars. Part two. Joseph Olejak
Features

Revelation and Revolution

The Apocalypse of John in the Quaker and African American spiritual traditions. Daniel Seeger
Life in the Meeting

The Challenge of Celebrating Historical Wars

What does a Friends meeting do when their hometown celebrates war? Sharon Ann Holt
Features

A Powerful Hope

Reflections on the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Rome. Phil Lord
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A Nightshift Education

Learning the value of an honest job. "I had fancied myself a class-conscious progressive. It shouldn't have startled me to… Martin Kelley

Quaker Women I Have Known

"The women in my family do things," said John Foster, the Quaker man I had just met in India. Much…

Quaker Money, Old Money, and White Privilege

“As a birthright Friend, she really knew her antiques.” This comment opened a testimony to the life of a beloved…