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Interview with Friends Journal’s Assistant Book Review Editor
Eileen Redden is a retired school counselor and teacher, and a member of Camden (Del.) Meeting. More recently she’s been attending a worship group at Cadbury Senior Living in Lewes, Del. She has served as the volunteer assistant book review editor of Friends Journal since 2008. To contact Eileen about becoming a reviewer, email [email protected]​friendsjournal.​org.
This interview is an extended version of the one that appeared in the print magazine.
Posted in: Interviews, Quaker Libraries
News November 2017
News of the Quaker world: AFSC on North Korea, Quaker groups partner with Everence, Quaker House appointment.
Posted in: News, Quaker Libraries
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
By Peter Wohlleben. Greystone Books, 2016. 251 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $24.99/eBook. “After you’ve read Wohlleben’s book, a walk in the woods […]
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
Forum June/July 2017
Letters from our readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please […]
A Year of Borrowed Men
By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 6–9. As a child […]
Margaret Crompton (Britain Yearly Meeting) is a writer and lecturer whose publications include Pendle Hill Pamphlet #419 Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Summers, Young Friends Bookshelf
Peace Works: A Century of Action
AFSC’s website Peace Works: Century of Action was created to gather and share stories from the past and present. Here […]
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Online Features
The Art of Gratitude
On the FJ Blog: “A boy’s watercolor depicts a heartwarming scene created amid the misery and starvation of post-World War […]
Nichole Mathews is part of an art committee at Indianapolis First Friends exploring additional ways and locations to display “Giving Voices to Ghosts.” For more information, contact her at [email protected]​sbcglobal.​net.
Daniel Lee is a member of Indianapolis First Friends.
Posted in: Online Features
Let’s Grow Together: Interview with Matthias Luckwaldt
Interviews with those new to Friends. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this […]
Posted in: Giving and Philanthropy, Let's Grow Together
Fighting Fascism and Surviving Buchenwald: The Life and Memoir of Hans Bergas
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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