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I also dressed as you for Halloween and got 7.2 pounds of candy!

By Gavin McNair on May 1, 2017

Student Voices: 鈥淚 am interested in history, and I like to play sports. I am a comedian and do good [鈥


Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
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Friends, Peace, and Justice in Baltimore

By Kathryn Munnell on April 1, 2017

Weekly vigils against war and for peace find a new focus for Baltimore Friends after the 2015 death of Freddie [鈥

Kathryn Munnell is a member of Homewood Meeting in Baltimore, Md. She currently serves on the Peace and Justice Committee of her meeting. She has divided her career between working on peace and justice issues and teaching in public high schools in Baltimore and New York City.


Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Online Features
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Memorial service at Abington Meeting. 漏 Tricia Coscia.

Honoring Those Known Only to God

By Honoring Project on March 1, 2017

A group of Friends hopes to identify North American Quaker burial grounds that hold remains of African American men, women, [鈥

Current committee members for Honoring Those Known Only To God are from Alaska, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.聽You can visit the Honoring Project's YouTube channel at聽http://bit.ly/YouTubeHonoringProjUGRR聽or email them at聽[email protected].

  • Avis Wanda McClinton, Upper Dublin (Pa.)聽Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
  • Joe Coscia and Tricia Coscia, Yardley (Pa.)聽Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
  • Linda Lotz, Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
  • Elizabeth (Liz) Oppenheimer, Laughing Waters Friends Preparative Meeting聽(Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn.), 聽Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative.
  • Sarah Yvonne Blackburn Kehoe, Chena Ridge Friends Meeting (Fairbanks, Alaska), Alaska Friends Conference.
  • Tom Grabe, Germantown Meeting (Philadelphia, Pa.). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

 

Update: This list has been revised to include the names and monthly and yearly affiliations of members of the committee.


Posted in: Online Features, Race and Anti-Racism
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Memorializing Friends of African Descent

By Liz Oppenheimer interview with George Schaefer on March 1, 2017

A Friends meeting learns about an invisible racial history right in its own backyard.

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
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By Reviewed by Patience Schenck on March 1, 2017

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
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Who Is My Neighbor?

By Ellie Beach on January 1, 2017

Can we reject unacceptable actions and still find ways to touch those neighbors in pain? 馃敀

Ellie Beach聽lives in聽Hiram, Ohio.


Posted in: January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace, Viewpoint
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know

By Reviewed by Philip Favero on January 1, 2017

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
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America鈥檚 Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

By Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck on November 1, 2016

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
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Quaker Bestsellers 2016

By Quakerbooks of FGC on September 1, 2016

The top ten best鈥恠elling books from the 2016 FGC Gathering.


Posted in: September 2016
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The Third Reconstruction

By William J. Barber II on September 1, 2016

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
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