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Facing Fascism, McCarthyism, and the New Jim Crow in 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
Tracking Down Ecological Guidance: Presence, Beauty, Survival
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 ReviewsMilestones December 2015
Births, deaths, and marriages among Friends.
Deaths, births, and marriages.
Posted in: December 2015: Economic Justice and Poverty, Milestones
Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis
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
Friends Journal looks at war
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
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
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 ReviewsQuaker Bestsellers 2013
From the 2013 FGC Gathering in Greeley, Colorado
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2013, Unfeatured
Growing Up in Germany During World War II
We had not heard from my Uncle Helmut in years: “lost in action,” we were told. Then one day in […]
Erika Muhlenberg is a member of Kendal Meeting in Kennett Square, Pa. Born in Hamburg, Germany, as a teenager she emigrated to the United States.
Posted in: Features
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Life at Lumakanda Friends Church by David Zarembka
Silent Journeys of Quakers from Hill House by Kumah Drah
Leadings of the Spirit by Rommel Roberts, Robin Roberts, and Lark Worth
Empowering Women against Gender‐based Violence by Parfaite Ntahuba
The Place of God’s Own Choosing by Eden Grace
Quaker Christianity in Kenya by Stanley Chagala Ngesa
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Quaker Silence in Community by Pat Meehan
Spelunking: What My Father Taught Me About the Light by Geoff Knowlton
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