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I feel that nationalism can help America

By Jacob Orloff on May 1, 2017

Student Voices: “However, for someone who promises that “America now will be heard,” perhaps it’s time to listen to everyone, […]

Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized

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A Centennial History of the American Friends Service Committee

By Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm on April 1, 2017

By Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2016. 498 pages. $24.95/paperback. At the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in 1994, […]

Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of special collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting. He has written extensively on Quaker history since 1800.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I

By Reviewed by Beth Taylor on April 1, 2017

Edited by Nancy Learned Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2016. 412 pages. $19.95/paperback. In 1917 Mary Peabody and Leslie Hotson were […]

Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and is the co-director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University and the author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Falling Through the Cracks: The Children of Calais

By Kate McNally on March 1, 2017

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).

Posted in: Online Features

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John H. Wood Jr.

By Staff on August 1, 2016

Wood—John H. Wood Jr., 101, on April 1, 2016, at home in Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa., surrounded by family. […]

Posted in: August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Milestones

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John Howard Huffman

By Staff on April 1, 2016

Huffman—John Howard Huffman, 74, on October 29, 2015, in Springfield, Mo., peacefully set free from a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. […]

Posted in: Milestones, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training

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Courtney Parker Siceloff

By Staff on April 1, 2016

Siceloff—Courtney Parker Siceloff, 92, on January 28, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. Courtney was born on January 4, 1922, in Bartlett, […]

Posted in: Milestones, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training

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Fighting Fascism and Surviving Buchenwald: The Life and Memoir of Hans Bergas

By Reviewed by Robert Dockhorn on March 1, 2016

By Bension Varon. Xlibris, 2015. 196 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $3.99/eBook. Hans Bergas was a high official in the Ministry of […]

Robert Dockhorn is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He facilitates small-group meetings of high school students with Holocaust survivors for the annual Youth Symposium on the Holocaust.

Posted in: Disability and Inclusion, March 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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