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Memorializing Friends of African Descent
More information about the Honoring Those Known Only to God project, including participant stories and advices about how Friends can begin this work in their local meeting or church, can be found at Friendsjournal.org/honoring-project.
Posted in: Features, Race and Anti-Racism
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson. Bloomsbury, 2016. 256 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback; $18.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] A lot of attention has been given to [鈥
Patience Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and the Annapolis Human Relations Commission.
Posted in: March 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Race and Anti-Racism
Who Is My Neighbor?
Can we reject unacceptable actions and still find ways to touch those neighbors in pain? 馃敀
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
By Joseph Romm. Oxford University Press, 2015. 328 pages. $16.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. Based on our agreement with climate scientists that global [鈥
Philip Favero is a former agricultural economist at Michigan State and South Dakota State Universities and at the University of Maryland. In 2014 he cofounded the Climate Stewards of Greater Annapolis, which stems from Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and is dedicated to advocacy and education about climate change (see聽csgannapolis.org).
Posted in: January 2017 Books, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
America鈥檚 Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
By Jim Wallis. Brazos Press, 2016. 272 pages. $21.99/hardcover or eBook. This book is as good a summary of the [鈥
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Working Group on Racism. She is also a member of the Annapolis Human Relations Commission.
Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media
Quaker Bestsellers 2016
The top ten best鈥恠elling books from the 2016 FGC Gathering.
Posted in: September 2016
The Third Reconstruction
It鈥檚 time to get America above the snake line of racial oppression.
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, is founder of Repairers of the Breach, chief architect of the Forward Together Moral Mondays Movement, and author of The Third Reconstruction (Beacon Press).
漏 American Friends Service Committee. This article is adapted from a talk given to AFSC鈥檚 Corporation Meeting in March. AFSC has been supporting Rev. Barber's Repairers of the Breach revival tour in several cities. The full talk is available at afsc.org/barber.
Posted in: Features, September 2016
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects
By Joanna Macy and Molly Brown. New Society Publishers, 2014. 285 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.25/eBook. String together the first three chapter [鈥
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: June/July 2016 Books, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker, Quaker Book Reviews
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Books That Have Changed Us
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuart鈥檚 The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
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