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In Defense of Blue KoolâAid
Kat Griffith is a former teacher and homeschooler and a current writer and volunteer in a variety of environmental and child-related endeavors. A member of the Winnebago Worship Group (Wis.) and Northern Yearly Meeting, she loves to cook, feed people, and be fed! Email: [email protected].
Posted in: Features, Unnamed Quaker Creeds
Community Dinner at Brooklynâs Quaker Diner
Three decades of monthly dinners have done more than just feed the hungry.
Carl Blumenthal is a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meetingâs Community Dinner Committee. If your meeting would like information on how to set up a community dinner, contact Carl at [email protected].
Posted in: Life in the Meeting, September 2019
Feeding Young Adults with a Taste of Abundance
Creating connections and building community through food.
Emily Provance, a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in New York City, is called to a ministry of hearth building. She is an associate of Good News Associates, which supports non-institutional ministries.
NiaDwynwen Thomas, a member of Northampton (Mass.) Meeting, serves as New England Yearly Meeting's Quaker practice and leadership facilitator.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2019: Food Choices
Lorettaâs Gift
By Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Alea Marley. Little Bee Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4 and [âŠ]
Anne Nydam is a member of Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting, where she teaches First-day school. A former middle school art teacher, she now stays home with her own children, while working as an author of childrenâs books and an artist.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
Occasions for Plain Dress
Are there times we might let our clothes speak?
Gracia Fay Ellwood lives in Ojai, Calif.
Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse, Viewpoint
Gota de Leche
The yellowing pages of 80âyearâold AFSC relief pamphlets inspire a new sense of agency.
Camilla Meek lives in Durham, N.C., where she has attended Durham Meeting and Guilford College Meeting. She served as a director of communications for Guilford College. Meek has a BA degree in fine arts and an MBA in marketing.
Special thanks to Don Davis of the AFSC Archives.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
God as a Cow and the Duck Index
Images from dreams provide unexpected life and spiritual guidance.
Tina Tau is a member of Multnomah Meeting in Portland, Ore. She is a writer, artist, and retired teacher currently pursuing her calling as a dreamworker, helping people tap the wisdom of their dreams.
Posted in: Features, September 2017
The Art of Gratitude
On the FJ Blog: âA boyâs watercolor depicts a heartwarming scene created amid the misery and starvation of postâWorld War [âŠ]
Nichole Mathews is part of an art committee at Indianapolis First Friends exploring additional ways and locations to display âGiving Voices to Ghosts.â For more information, contact her at [email protected].
Daniel Lee is a member of Indianapolis First Friends.
Posted in: Online Features
Jakeâs Chickens
Motherhood and science fairs.
Jane Purcell currently teaches at Scattergood Friends School, and is working on a piece about the history of Ladiesâ Shakespeare Clubs in Iowa. In 2006, the University of California Press published her book Not of an Age, but for All Time, about rare and early editions of Shakespeareâs works.
Posted in: Features, February 2016Composting as Holy Sacrament
In my family album, there is a picture that my mother took of me in 1945 as a twoâyearâold âhelpingâ [âŠ]
Louis Cox has been Publications Coordinator for Quaker Earthcare Witness since 2001 and is a member of Burlington, Vt., Friends Meeting. He and his wife compost in Charlotte, Vt.
Posted in: Features
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