Hopelessness and burnout lead a Friend to rediscover an archaic form of hope.
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A Quaker Perspective on Hope
Kate Davies is a member of Whidbey Island (Wash.) Meeting and author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. She is also senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute and professor emeritus at Antioch University.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
When We Were Alone
FJ Review: “As they spend time in the garden, the little girl asks her grandmother questions. All of the questions relate […]
Eileen Redden is the assistant book review editor for Friends Journal. She worships in Lewes, Del.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Wild Birds, Fantasy, and the Possible
A memoir through books.
James W. Hood teaches nineteenth-century British literature, composition, and American nature writing at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of Greensboro’s Friendship Meeting.
Posted in: Online Features, September 2017
A Year of Borrowed Men
By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 6–9. As a child […]
Margaret Crompton (Britain Yearly Meeting) is a writer and lecturer whose publications include Pendle Hill Pamphlet #419 Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Summers, Young Friends Bookshelf
Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
By D. L. Mayfield. HarperOne, 2016. 224 pages. $14.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. [Buy on Quakerbooks] I grew up an Evangelical Friend. Despite […]
Brent Bill is Friends General Conference’s associate secretary for communications, publications, and outreach. A member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, his newest book is Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality (Second Edition).
Posted in: March 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Race and Anti-Racism
Organizing Young Adult Friends Online
How do we reach out to younger Friends struggling to find a local community?
Greg Woods is a lifelong Quaker whose leading is toward campus ministry. He is currently starting a network of Quaker campus ministries. A member of Columbia (Mo.) Meeting, he attends First Friends Meeting of Greensboro, N.C., with his wife, Jenn Bonsall, and their infant daughter, Margaret Rae Bonsall. He can be contacted at [email protected]gmail.com.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Social Media
Marie DuBois Clark
Clark—Marie DuBois Clark, 92, on August 10, 2014. Marie was born on December 10, 1921, in upstate New York. She […]
Posted in: Milestones
Milestones September 2015
Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this […]
Births, marriages, and deaths.
Posted in: Milestones, September 2015: Reproduction and Family Planning
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