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Interrupting the Family Barbecue: In Search of the Planetary Health Diet
After retiring in early 2015, Jim Ross jumped back into creative pursuits. He’s since published 75 pieces of nonfiction, several poems, and 200 photos in 80 journals in North America, Europe, and Asia. Jim and his wife—parents of two health professionals, grandparents of four toddlers—attend Sandy Spring (Md.) Meeting.
Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Online Features
An American Casualty of U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran
A Quaker activist learns first‐hand about the medical costs of U.S. sanctions.
David Hartsough is a Quaker from San Francisco, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist, director of Peaceworkers, and co-founder of World Beyond War and Nonviolent Peaceforce.
For more info on the trip, see Code Pink's "Blogs from Iran." For more info on the effect of U.S. sanctions on Iran, see World Beyond War's "Iranian Sanctions: Iraq Redux?" and "Fear, Hate and Violence: The Human Cost of US Sanctions on Iran."
This article was originally printed online on April 12, 2019.
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Witness
Quakers, Politics, and Economics (Quakers and the Disciplines, Volume 5)
Edited by David R. Ross and Michael T. Snarr. Friends Association for Higher Education, 2018. 398 pages. $19.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Friends […]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: April 2019 Books, Humor in Religion, Quaker Book Reviews
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918
By Michael Kazin. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 378 pages. $28/hardcover; $17/paperback (January 2018); $14.99/eBook. This year marks the one‐hundredth anniversary […]
Dave Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world history.
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
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights
By Steve Chase. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 445), 2017. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Which side are you on? In the Israel–Palestine […]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
I Want You to Be: On the God of Love
By Tomáš Halík, translated by Gerald Turner. University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. 189 pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Tomáš Halík, a […]
Tom Paxson is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa. Kendal Meeting is a member of Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: Conscience, October 2017 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsForum, March 2017
Letters from our readers. Discussions on peak experiences, picking business partners, beliefs and practices of Friends, teaching in non‐Quaker schools, […]
Posted in: Forum, Race and Anti-Racism
Falling Through the Cracks: The Children of Calais
Across the Channel from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, approximately 10,000 men, women, and children lived in […]
Kate McNally is a member of Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting and works as the Forced Migration Project coordinator for the Quaker Council for European Affairs (qcea.org).
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June‐July 2019
Features
The Ministry of Quaker Farmers by Rachel Van Boven
Feeding Young Adults with a Taste of Abundance by Emily Provance and Niadwynwen Thomas
Vegetarianism in Quaker History by John Sniegocki
Butcher Hogs for Sale by Dayna Baily
A Vegan Offers Three Reasons for Hope by Margaret Fisher
Letting the Higher Power Do It by Anonymous
Online Features
Chose a Resilient Community by Craig Jensen and Suzanna Schell
The Great Food Transformation by Elizabeth Root
Food Choices, Relationship, and God by Lorene Ludy
Interrupting the Family Barbecue by Jim Ross
A Critique of Health Consciousness by Caroline Morris
Poetry
Aspect of Loss by Karie Firoozmand
Turkey Vultures by Charles Weld
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