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New Worldwide Quaker Map Released

By FJ Staff on September 13, 2017

Friends World Committee for Consultation released a new map of worldwide Quaker population figures, its first such release since 2012.

Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
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The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

By Reviewed by James Foritano on December 1, 2016

By Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Jez Tuya. Albert Whitman & Company, 2016. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $6.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8. […]

James Foritano attends Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting.

Posted in: December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Giving and Philanthropy, Quaker Book Reviews
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Garden II, ink on paper, by artist and Zen Master Rebecca Nie. View more of her work at rebexart.com.

The Zen of Quakerism

By Peter Taylor on February 1, 2016

Faith and Practice.

Peter Taylor worked as a social worker and practiced Zen in Toronto, Canada. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Lily, and daughter, Abby, managing a family farm and wildlife preserve. He is a member of Westfield Meeting in Cinnaminson, N.J., and has published three books from his blog Zenmister.com.

Posted in: Faith and Practice, February 2016
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Thanksgiving on the IRT

By Jeanine M. Dell’Olio on November 1, 2015

A rushed moment on a New York subway platform is suddenly transformed.

Jeanine M. Dell’Olio is a professor emerita from the Education Department of Hope College. She is a member of Holland (Mich.) Meeting.

Posted in: Features, November 2015: Books and Pop Culture
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We Think He Might Be a Boy

By Su Penn on July 31, 2013

Raising a transgender child.

Su Penn writes about the Tiny Tornado, homeschooling, adoption, Quakerism, and much more at tapeflags.blogspot.com.

Posted in: August 2013: Parenting, Features
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