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Letās Be Salt
A former peace studies teacher at Pendle Hill center in Wallingford, Pa., Daniel O. Snyder is now a pastoral counselor in Black Mountain, N.C. He is the author of the Pendle Hill pamphlet Quaker Witness as Sacrament. He is a member of Swannanoa Valley Meeting in Black Mountain.
Posted in: Conscience, Features
An AFSC Defense of the Rights of Conscience
The Case of the United States of America vs. Daniel A. Seeger
Daniel A. Seeger is a member of Morningside Meeting in New York City. He has served as executive director of Pendle Hill, as interim general secretary of American Friends Service Committee, and as an AFSC regional director in New York and San Francisco.
Posted in: Conscience, Features
Why Talk about Conscientious Objection with Youth?
Conscience must be developed and nurtured.
Curt Torell is an educator, counselor, and organizational development consultant, with a MDiv and a PhD in psychoeducational processes. He is a Quaker House board member and the treasurer for almost ten years. His conscientious objection started while attending seminary.
Posted in: Conscience, Features
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateāDiscoveries from a Secret World
By Peter Wohlleben. Greystone Books, 2016. 251 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. āAfter youāve read Wohllebenās book, a walk in the woods [ā¦]
Ruah Swennerfelt, a member of Burlington (Vt.) Meeting, is a homesteader and activist. She is the author of Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith and numerous articles on living simply.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 Books
Love Cannot Be Overwhelmed
Viewpoint: Love cannot be overwhelmed. Love stays. š
Michael Lane lives inĀ Burlington, N.J.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Viewpoint
What We Cannot Do Alone
A new way of relating is breaking through our institutional numbness.
Noah Merrill is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting, which has care and oversight of his service in ministry. He serves as secretary of New England Yearly Meeting.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?
Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?
Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of Special Collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting in the New Association of Friends.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
ePublishers of Truth
The shared lessons of strengthening a movement among Friends.
Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels extensively among Friends with a concern for how we connect both digitally and face-to-face. She also serves New England Yearly Meeting as events coordinator and social media manager. Kathleen shares her travels and learning at quakerkathleen.wordpress.com.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Online Features
Just Living
By Meredith Egan. Amity Publishers, 2016. 446 pages. $17.99/paperback; $5.99/eBook. Meredith Eganās debut novel, Just Living, explores the ideas embedded [ā¦]
Jim Hood teaches English and environmental studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. He is a member of Friendship Meeting, North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative).
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Books That Have Changed Us
November 2018 Full Issue Access
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuartās The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
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Communion by Nancy L. Bieber
If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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