An introduction to the October issue on Meetings and Money.
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Seeking Solid Ground in the Money Swamp
A Friends meeting looks beyond rainy days to build a better relationship with money.
Pamela Haines, a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, delivered the keynote address at Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 2017 on āMoney, Community, and Integrity.ā Her Pendle Hill pamphlet, Money and Soul, was published this spring. She is active in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Eco-Justice Collaborative and Friends Economic Integrity Project.
Posted in: Features, Meetings and Money
A Living Tension
Quaker values and money.
Jeffery W. Perkins is executive director of Friends Fiduciary Corporation, a Quaker nonprofit providing cost-effective, professional, socially responsible investment services to Quaker meetings, churches, and organizations. He serves on the board of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and is a member of Chestnut Hill Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: Features, Meetings and Money
Money as a Mutual Blessing
Moving from anxiety and greed to milk and honey.
Lola Georg attends Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. Previously, she had an extensive career in financial management for nonprofits, including Quaker organizations. She conducts workshops about the spirituality of money (spiritualityofmoney.com). She loves Viv Hawkins, and they live in Philadelphia.
Posted in: Features, Meetings and Money
Forum, October 2018
Letters from our readers. š Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please [ā¦]
Posted in: Forum, Meetings and Money
Money and Soul
By Pamela Haines. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 450), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Fretting about economics and money is not new [ā¦]
Diana Roose is a member of Oberlin (Ohio) Meeting and a Friend in Residence at Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington, D.C.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Contempt Is a BitterāTasting Word
Rebuilding community among people who do not agree.
J. E. McNeil is an attorney and a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) with a masterās in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University. She has trained thousands in different matters around the country and is currently providing training by request on āConversations with the Other.ā
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Making Sense of the Starbucks Incident
Quaker values do not need to be mere theoretical ideas.
Ankita Achanta is a seventh-grade student at Newtown Friends School (NFS) in Newtown, Pa. She participates in The Agents of Social Change (TASC) at NFS, a student group founded on the belief that āwe will be able to make a difference in our world,ā and that uses Quaker process in decision making.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World
By Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory. Paraclete Press, 2017. 196 pages. $16.99/paperback; $11.99/eBook. How timely that this deeply personal memoir [ā¦]
Claire J. Salkowski is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md. She has worked in both public and private schools and was founder, teacher, and head of Free State Montessori School. She is currently an Alternative Dispute Resolution specialist and an educational consultant.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Writing Opp: Quakers and Christianity (due 9/17)
Itās a series of questions that has dogged Friends since we did away with clergy and started calling baptism a [ā¦]
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