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Forum, December 2017

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Forum

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Facing Fascism, McCarthyism, and the New Jim Crow in 2017

By Laura Magnani on April 1, 2017

The times we find ourselves in are extremely serious.

Laura Magnani is director of AFSC’s Bay Area Healing Justice Program and has worked on criminal justice issues for over 35 years. She wrote America’s First Penitentiary: A 200 Year Old Failure and coauthored Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System. She is a member of Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, Calif.

Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Features

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Tracking Down Ecological Guidance: Presence, Beauty, Survival

By Reviewed by Pamela Haines on February 1, 2016

By Keith Helmuth. Chapel Street Editions, 2015. 243 pages. $20/paperback. In the first chapter of Tracking Down Ecological Guidance, Keith […]

Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: February 2016, February 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Milestones December 2015

By Staff on November 30, 2015

Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.

Deaths, births, and marriages.

Posted in: December 2015: Economic Justice and Poverty, Milestones

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Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis

By Reviewed by Jim Kessler on October 1, 2015

By Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler, and A. J. Swoboda. Baker Academic, 2014. 255 pages. $26.99/paperback or eBook. Introducing […]

Jim Kessler is a member of Grinnell Friends Church (FUM) in Grinnell, Iowa, and teaches environmental biology at Iowa Valley Community College–Grinnell. Jim speaks often to secular and faith-based groups about the importance of reintroducing native plantings into human-altered landscapes, and with his wife, Kathy, has restored native habitat on the 30 acres where they live.

Posted in: October 2015 Books, October 2015: Faithful Living, Quaker Book Reviews

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Friends Journal looks at war

By Staff on August 1, 2015

60th Anniversary: Even in its first year, Friends Journal remembered the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and […]

Posted in: August 2015: The Effects of War

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

By Reviewed by Douglas Bennett on June 1, 2015

By Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 512 pages. $30/hardcover; $16.95/paperback; $14.99/eBook. The world is still recoiling from the Charlie […]

Douglas Bennett is president emeritus of Earlham College. He is a member of First Friends Richmond in the New Association of Friends, the group recently set off from Indiana Yearly Meeting. He lives in Maine and worships at Durham (Maine) Meeting.

Posted in: June/July 2015 Books, June/July 2015: Activists vs Mystics vs Pragmatists, Quaker Book Reviews

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