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Camilla Meek lives in Durham, N.C., where she has attended Durham Meeting and Guilford College Meeting. She served as a director of communications for Guilford College. Meek has a BA degree in fine arts and an MBA in marketing.
Special thanks to Don Davis of the AFSC Archives.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Life in a Box
The homelessness crisis requires us to think outside storage bins.
Andrew Huff served with Quaker Voluntary Service in 2015–16 in Boston, Mass. He attends Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Features, September 2018
Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness
FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. / […]
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys
Edited by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick-Parks. Corwin, 2018. 472 pages. $27.95/paperback or eBook. Some years […]
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and lives at Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. She is passionate about ending racism with a current emphasis on criminal justice reform.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith
By Karen Wright Marsh. IVP Books, 2017. 224 pages. $20/hardcover; $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed […]
Bob Dixon-Kolar is an assistant professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He and his family are members of Evanston (Ill.) Meeting.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
God Sightings on the Hiking Trail
Reflection: Life is dark and life is full of light. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ […]
Bernadette Kero is a retired nurse and has been a regular attendee at Klamath Falls Friends Church in Oregon for three years. She’s a member of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and enjoys volunteering at Friends Food Pantry and hiking.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Reflection
Blessed Are the Artists
An intergenerational gathering of artists.
Maggie Nelson is a visual artist, youth worker, and attender of Portland (Maine) Meeting. She currently works as the interim Young Friends Coördinator for New England Yearly Meeting and was a long-time staff member at Friends Camp. She is called to work at the intersection of art and faith.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
Forum, June/July 2018
Letters from readers. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join […]
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Forum
Family Is Family
I am adopted. Both my mom and my dad are white. Both of my sisters are also white. My brother […]
Abel Rupertus, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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