Tag Archives | Hiroshima

The Root of War Is Fear: Thomas Merton’s Advice to Peacemakers

By Reviewed by Bill Chapman on February 1, 2017

By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 2016. 224 pages. $25/paperback; $20.50/eBook. Jim Forest was Thomas Merton’s longtime friend and colleague in […]

Bill Chapman is a member of Indianapolis First Friends Meeting in Indiana. Bill is also the clerk of the Indiana Friends Committee on Legislation.

Posted in: February 2017, February 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: The Little Bonsai with a Big Story

By Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley on May 1, 2016

By Sandra Moore, illustrated by Kazumi Wilds. Tuttle Publishing, 2015. 32 pages. $14.95/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8 and up. […]

Sandy and Tom Farley are members of Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting. They are the primary authors of Earthcare for Children, a First-day school curriculum.

Posted in: May 2016 Young Friends Bookshelf, May 2016: Gender and Sexuality, Quaker Book Reviews

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Silent Voices: A Family Memoir

By Reviewed by Beth Taylor on January 1, 2016

By Judith Wright Favor. Pilgrimage Press, 2014. 153 pages. $10.99/paperback. Judith Wright Favor is a former pilot and pastor, now […]

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

Posted in: January 2016 Books, January 2016: Quakers and the Political Process, Quaker Book Reviews

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Forum October 2015

By Staff on October 1, 2015

Letters from our readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please […]

Posted in: Forum, October 2015: Faithful Living

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Forum September 2015

By Staff on September 1, 2015

Letters from our readers 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please […]

Posted in: Forum, September 2015: Reproduction and Family Planning

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Author chat with David Harrington Watt on the continued educational work around Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By David Harrington Watt on August 20, 2015

we believe that certain lessons can be drawn from historians’ accounts of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One lesson […]

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The author's father, Ralph G. Steinhardt, Jr., 1979.

Memories of My Father’s Memories

By Ralph G. Steinhardt on August 1, 2015

The humanity and inhumanity of the Manhattan Project.

Ralph G. Steinhardt, who was named after his father, is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and co-clerk of its Ministry and Worship Committee. He is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School and co-founder of its joint human rights program at New College, Oxford University (UK).

Posted in: August 2015: The Effects of War, Features

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