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Dreams and Nightmares
FJ Review: ” The guide leads students into deeper reflection on Liliana’s story while encouraging them to explore their own families, conducting […]
Ken Jacobsen grew up in Venezuela and has an ongoing concern for north–south dialogue among Friends in the Americas. He currently lives in Wisconsin and is an adjunct professor at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
The Transformation of a Small Quaker Library
Bringing a new sense of purpose to an underused meeting library. đź”’
Ruth McNeill is a member of Corvallis (Ore.) Meeting. She is a retired preschool and elementary school teacher, an amateur weaver, and an amateur writer.
Posted in: Features, Quaker Libraries
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Haymarket Books, 2016. 288 pages. $17.95/paperback; $17.99/eBook. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor places the […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns committees.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. HarperCollins, 2017. 434 pages. $16.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. This is a book I came to […]
Catherine Wald is a poet, author, and teacher who attends Sing Sing Worship Group at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y.
Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries
The Advantage of History: An Interview with Timothy Snyder
Friends Journal interviews the author of the best-selling book on resisting the rise of American authoritarianism.
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of works of European history, including Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. He appears regularly in both Europe and the United States as a commentator on politics and history. With the recent publication of On Tyranny, he has been engaged in public work in American civics. His next book, The Origins of Unfreedom, will be published in April 2018.
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Conscience, Online Features
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
By Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 2017. 228 pages. $24.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Michael Eric Dyson earned his PhD in 1993, […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books
The Value of Seminary
Lives of Friends: “But why go to seminary?” 🔒
Ashley M. Wilcox is a recorded minister and pastor of Church of Mary Magdalene. She is a member of Freedom Friends Church and a sojourning member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. Her writing has been published in Friends Journal, Western Friend, and various Quaker anthologies, as well as on her website, ashleymwilcox​.com.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Lives of Friends
I urge you to look past your empire of business and riches, and ask yourself a question
Student Voices: ” All that said, I have a few pieces of final advice for you: Be kind. Build bridges, […]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
When kids go to college and become more educated, the unemployment rate decreases
Student Voices: “Making tuition prices lower opens up the door for many young students aspiring to further their education and […]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
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