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How Can Pacifists Support Our Troops?

By Zac Moon on August 1, 2019

Second Season’s Featured Video

Posted in: QuakerSpeak at Five, Unfeatured

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Antisemitism: Here and Now

By Reviewed by David Austin on August 1, 2019

By Deborah E. Lipstadt. Schocken Books, 2019. 304 pages. $25.95/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. In early March of 2019, news sources across the […]

David Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world and Holocaust history.

Posted in: August 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, QuakerSpeak at Five

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Writing Opp: Friends and Gambling (closed)

By Martin Kelley on July 3, 2019

Is our witness against gambling a testimony that still matters or has it become outdated? Looking for 1200–2500 word submissions, […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk

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Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture

By Reviewed by Brent Bill on June 1, 2019

By Daniel Demeter. Just World Books, 2016. 304 pages. $49.99/hardcover; $29.99/paperback. While I do know a fair amount about photography, […]

Brent Bill is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. A member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, his newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love will be released in September 2019.

Posted in: June/July 2019 Books, June/July 2019: Food Choices, Quaker Book Reviews

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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).

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