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Writing Opp: Quakers and Healing (due 1/15)
Our April 2018 issue will look at Quakers healing. I鈥檝e always been struck by the ambivalence of early Friends on [鈥
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal: [email protected]鈥媐riendsjournal.鈥媜rg
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
A Quaker Approach to Living with Dying
Does the Quaker way of life have answers to death?
Katherine Jaramillo is a staff chaplain at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Ore. She has worked in healthcare chaplaincy for 20 years. She is a member of Bridge City Meeting in Portland.
Posted in: Online Features, The Art of Dying
Integrity and the Ultimate
How can we talk about death when we鈥檙e so vibrantly alive?
Susann Estle is a chaplain at the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Greencastle, Ind.; a PRN chaplain at Hendricks Regional Health Hospital; and a part-time pastor at Hopewell Friends Church in Dana, Ind. She is mother to Case and Chloe.
Posted in: Online Features, The Art of Dying
Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
By Alice Rothchild. Just World Books, 2017. 283 pages. $19.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. In Steve Feldman鈥檚 book Compartments, the well-known dermatologist chronicles [鈥
Max Carter is the recently retired William R. Rogers director of Friends Center and Quaker studies at Guilford College. In retirement, he and his wife, Jane, continue to lead annual service-learning trips to Palestine and Israel under the sponsorship of Friends United Meeting.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying
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
The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing
By Drew Leder. University of Chicago Press, 2016. 304 pages. $30/paperback or eBook. To be human means to lead both [鈥
A physician practicing in Virginia, Margaret Fisher is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Working Group on Right Relationship with Animals.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Hope for the White Supremacist Within
Do we need a 12-step program to overcome our internalized racism.
LVM Shelton, metaphysician, mathophile, and musician, taught academic philosophy until 1996, and has worked as a mental health counselor. Her ministry among Friends includes workshop offerings that nurture diverse and transformative spiritual community. She is a member of Plainfield (Vt.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2016
How to Read Job
By John H. Walton and Tremper Longman III. InterVarsity Press, 2015. 208 pages. $20/paperback; $16.99/eBook. Stop me if you have [鈥
Douglas Bennett is president emeritus of Earlham College. He is a member of Durham (Maine) Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting).
Posted in: August 2016 Books, August 2016: Quaker Spaces, Quaker Book Reviews
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