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A Reluctant Minister
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
Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography
By Dacia Palmerino, illustrated by Andrea Grosso Ciponte, translated by Michael G. Parker. Plough Publishing House, 2017. 160 pages. $19.95/paperback; […]
Isaac Barnes May is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting. He is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
Posted in: April 2018 Books, Healing, Quaker Book Reviews
Writing Opp: Going Viral with Quakerism (due 5/14)
What’s the Quaker message for today? How do we communicate it and how do we share it? What are some […]
Writing Opp: Creativity and the Arts (Due 3/5)
Early Friends were famously skeptical of art; modern Friends pretty much fully embrace it. Why the abrupt turnaround? What reasons […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Writing Opp: What Are Quaker Values Anyway? (Due 2/5)
If there’s a Quaker brand, then “Quaker values” is its most common pitch. What do we mean when we use […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. Contact: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Writing Opp: Quakers and Healing (due 1/15)
Our April 2018 issue will look at Quakers healing. I’ve always been struck by the ambivalence of early Friends on […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
First Day Stories
FJ Review: “First Day Stories is a perfect lesson starter for First‐day schools and an important book to have in every Quaker […]
Emilie Gay is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
A Leisurely Introduction to How a Bible‐believing Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage in the Church
By Becky Ankeny. Meetinghouse, 2017. 42 pages. $3/pamphlet; free eBook. Evangelical Friends in Northwest Yearly Meeting have for some time […]
Mitchell Santine Gould is the leading authority on Walt Whitman’s Quakerism, and runs the website leavesofgrass.org. His analysis of transcendentalism as the secularization of Quakerism has appeared in Quaker History and in Quaker Theology. He is an attender at Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Transfigurations—Transgressing Gender in the Bible
Written and performed by Peterson Toscano; directed by Samuel Neff. Barclay Press, 2017. 103 minutes. $20/DVD; $14.99/download; $2.99/online rental. I […]
Kody Gabriel Hersh is a queer, trans, young adult, Christian, Quaker, youth worker, writer, and activist. They are a member of Miami (Fla.) Meeting (Southeastern Yearly Meeting), currently living in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
You Will Not Have My Hate
By Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor. Penguin Press, 2016. 144 pages. $23/hardcover; $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Antoine Leiris began writing You […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and the DC Peace Team. She also serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying
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