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How I Found God in Competitive Sports
Jon Watts is a Quaker living in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa. He enjoys volleyball, tennis, and trying to beat his own record for hiking the length of the Wissahickon Valley. When he’s not competing, Jon is interviewing Quakers for the QuakerSpeak project or composing Quaker-related music.
Posted in: Features, Friendly Competition?
Quiet AND Shhh…God Is in the Silence
Quiet By Tomie dePaola. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. […]
Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry, urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury YA, 2018. 288 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. In her 2016 […]
Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting. She is the recipient of Pendle Hill’s 2019 Minnie Jane Arts Scholarship and is serving as writer in residence there from March through July 2019. Anna has a MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book ReviewsDaniel Levinson
Levinson—Daniel Levinson, 91, on July 26, 2017, in Tempe, Ariz. Dan was born on April, 23, 1926, in Chicago, Ill. […]
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Milestones
Writing Opp: Five Years of QuakerSpeak (EXTENDED DEADLINE May 27)
It’s been five years since Friends Publishing Corporation launched a companion project to Friends Journal: the QuakerSpeak video series. In […]
April 2019 Full Access
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Posted in: Full Access, Humor in Religion, Unfeatured
Quaker Works April 2019
This semiannual feature highlights the recent works of Quaker organizations in eight categories.
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Quaker Works
March 2019 Full Issue Access
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Posted in: Full Access, Outside the Meetinghouse
News, March 2019
New York Quakers sue to reinstate meetings at Green Haven Prison.
Posted in: News, Outside the Meetinghouse
The Healing Power of Stories
By Michael Bischoff. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 454), 2018. 27 pages. $7/pamphlet. Why do we get cancer? While there are […]
Brad Sheeks, a member of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting, is a retired hospice nurse, and with his wife, Patricia McBee, is a retired co-leader in the Couple Enrichment Program of Friends General Conference.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
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May 2019
Student Voices
6th Annual Student Voices Project
Features
How I Found God in Competitive Sport by Jon Watts
The Hope for Collaboration over Competition by Mark Pratt‐Russum
The Invisible Damage of Competition by Mary Jo Klingel
Poetry
Always the Challenge to Be Patient by Charles Bunner
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