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Writing Opp: A Racially Diverse Society of Friends? (Due October 15)

By Martin Kelley on September 21, 2018

For many Friends in the Friends Journal audience, there are few topics more fraught than race and racism. We look […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk

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Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home

By Reviewed by Beth Taylor on March 1, 2018

By Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck. Just World Books, 2016. 272 pages. $24.99/paperback. The title of this excellent memoir comes […]

Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting, instructor in Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program, and author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir.

Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land

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And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality

Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould

on October 1, 2016

By Mark Segal. Open Lens, an imprint of Akashic Books, 2015. 320 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Just how bad was […]

Mitchell Santine Gould is a gay and Quaker historian who is writing a book on Walt Whitman. He runs an Airbnb destination in Portland, Ore., called PDX Wheelhouse, and is the curator of Leavesofgrass.org.

Posted in: Crossing Cultures, October 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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