Poverty and the testimony of simplicity.
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60th Anniversary December 2015
Trevor Johnson is the editorial fellow at Friends Journal through Quaker Voluntary Service鈥檚 second-year Alumni Fellows program.
Posted in: December 2015: Economic Justice and Poverty, From the Archives
Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty
By Jay Gillen. AK Press, 2014. 178 pages. $15.95/paperback; $10.99/eBook. A forward by civil rights leader Bob Moses gives Educating [鈥
Rosalie Dance is a member of Adelphi (Md.) Meeting, sojourner at Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. Rosalie has taught mathematics in secondary schools and universities for many years.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2015 Books, September 2015: Reproduction and Family Planning, Uncategorized
My Experience as an African American Quaker
A planned memorial for freed slaves in the cemetery exposes lingering divides.
Avis Wanda McClinton is a resident of Glenside, Pa., in Upper Dublin Township. She is a board member of the Grandom Insitution, a grant making project of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
A Journey toward Eliminating Racism in the Religious Society of Friends
A ministry to abolish racism within Quakerism
Vanessa Julye is the nurturing ministries coordinator for Friends General Conference鈥檚 Ministry on Racism and Youth Ministries Programs. A member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting and the Haverford College Corporation, Vanessa has published numerous articles and pamphlets and serves as a guest speaker for many Friends meetings. Vanessa meets with Friends of Color throughout the world.
Posted in: Features, October 2014: Experience of Friends of Color
Love in the Belly of the Beast
Race, punishment, and hope in the prison鈥恑ndustrial complex.
Laura Magnani is program director for Healing Justice in the American Friends Service Committee鈥檚 San Francisco office. She has done prison work for Friends for over 40 years. She is a member of Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, Calif.聽This article was adapted from a plenary talk at the 2014 Friends General Conference Gathering in California, Pennsylvania.
Posted in: Features, September 2014
Books November 2013
Books reviewed: Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (ed. by Nick McRae); Powerful Beyond Measure: The Legacy of Quaker Leadership in the [鈥
Book Reviews: April 2012
Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner鈥檚 Lucretia Mott鈥檚 Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge鈥檚 Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more [鈥
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Books That Have Changed Us
November 2018 Full Issue Access
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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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Communion by Nancy L. Bieber
If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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