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How Quakerism Began

By Max Carter on August 1, 2019

First Season’s Featured Video

Posted in: QuakerSpeak at Five, Unfeatured

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Six Seasons of QuakerSpeak

By Staff on August 1, 2019

Our pick of noteworthy videos from each season.

Posted in: Features, QuakerSpeak at Five

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Writing Opp: Friends and Gambling

By Martin Kelley on July 3, 2019

Is our witness against gambling a testimony that still matters or has it become outdated? Looking for 1200–2500 word submissions, […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk

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Butcher Hogs for Sale

By Dayna Baily on June 1, 2019

A sign on the side of the road sparks a crisis of conscience.

Dayna Baily lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with her family, for whom plant-based cooking is both a delicious source of good nutrition and a private form of nonviolent protest against a cruel status quo. She worships at Penn Hill Meeting in Wakefield, Pa., and participates in Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Right Relationship with Animals Working Group.

Posted in: Features, June/July 2019: Food Choices

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The Hope for Collaboration over Competition

By Mark Pratt-Russum on May 1, 2019

Quakers can be co‐conspirators, participants, creators, shapers, imaginers, and dreamers.

Mark Pratt-Russum is a released minister at West Hills Friends Church in Portland, Ore. He is a father and husband and is seriously in love with photography.

Posted in: Features, Friendly Competition?

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Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

By Reviewed by Julia Copeland on May 1, 2019

By Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Carolrhoda Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. […]

Julia Copeland is the school librarian at Greene Street Friends School in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa. She has spent the last three years growing the school library collection to reflect the diversity of the Greene Street Friends School community and the world we live in.

Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews

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Laughing for the Wary

By Howard R. Macy on April 1, 2019

Humor can help build religious community but it can also hurt and cause division.

Howard R. Macy is retired from teaching at George Fox University in Newberg, Ore. He continues to write and serve in public ministry. Two of his books treat humor and religion: Laughing Pilgrims: Humor and the Spiritual Journey and Discovering Humor in the Bible: An Explorer's Guide.

Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion

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Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition

By Andrew J. Bergman on April 1, 2019

What’s the difference between a Mennonite and a Quaker?

Andrew J. Bergman is a Mennonite writer from Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet.

Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion

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