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The Art of Loving Yourself
Frances Kelly, Grade 10, New Garden Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Peacefulness in a Chaotic World
Peacefulness has been a common theme throughout my life and my journeys. My mother and father have been through so […]
Zein Mosarsaa, Grade 10, Westtown School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Wishtree
By Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso. Feiwel and Friends, 2017. 224 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. How […]
Judith Favor belongs to Claremont (Calif.) Meeting. Author of the 2017 novel The Beacons of Larkin Street, she appreciates interconnectedness with nature expressed in poetic writing.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball
By Dori Jones Yang. SparkPress, 2017. 256 pages. $12.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 10–14. It seems almost anticlimactic when the […]
James Foritano attends Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
April 2018 Full Issue Access
Members can download the full PDF or read any article online (see links below). Features: “Nurturing Growth and Healing through […]
FJ Members can download the full PDF of the April issue or read any article online.
Posted in: Full Access, Healing
Meeting for Worship for Healing
A largely forgotten Quaker practice brings healing and wholeness once more.
A Day of Waiting
FJ Poetry: “Holy Saturday waits / Like a patch of dirt in the lawn / Nothing happening / But shoots, then […]
March 2018 Full Issue Access
FJ Members can download the full PDF of the March issue or read any article online. đź”’
Posted in: Full Access, Quakers and the Holy Land
A Network of Love
An Indiana witness in Palestine, remembered. đź”’
Lois Jordan is a lifelong Quaker who grew up in Rich Square Meeting in Indiana and graduated from Earlham College. When Rich Square closed, she and her husband, Carl (now deceased), became members of New Castle (Ind.) Meeting. She presently resides at Friends Fellowship Community in Richmond, Ind., and is a member of West Richmond Meeting in Richmond, Ind. She is the author of Ramallah Teacher: The Life of Mildred White, Quaker Missionary, now out of print.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and the Holy Land
When Dialogue Stands in the Way of Peace
People-to-people programs can cause harm when they don’t address structural issues.
Mike Merryman-Lotze is AFSC’s Middle East Program director, helping to coördinate its Israel-Palestine advocacy and policy work. From 2000 through 2003, Mike worked with the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in Ramallah, and from 2007 through 2010, he worked with Save the Children, managing child rights programming in Palestine.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and the Holy Land
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