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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile

By Reviewed by Margaret T. Walden on May 1, 2019

By Sharlee Glenn. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. 56 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. Mary Titcomb was […]

Margaret T. Walden’s first library job was at the Rauh Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library. The branch was located in an old mansion; at the back of the mansion was the carriage house that was home to the city’s bookmobile.

Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews

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Writing Opp: Five Years of QuakerSpeak (EXTENDED DEADLINE May 27)

By Martin Kelley on April 5, 2019

It’s been five years since Friends Publishing Corporation launched a companion project to Friends Journal: the QuakerSpeak video series. In […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal

Posted in: From the Editor's Desk

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Finding Lightness in the Light

By Kerry O'Regan on April 1, 2019

We Quakers have an image problem when it comes to fun and frivolity.

Kerry O'Regan has been a member of Adelaide Meeting in South Australia for the past 30 years and looks after the books—as in library books—for the meeting. She is a retired teacher who lives right by the sea and so feels that she is on permanent vacation.

Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion

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Quilting as Ministry

By Kayla Schneider-Smith on February 1, 2018

Quilting as healing at a Quaker Voluntary Service house.

Kayla Schneider-Smith is a 2016-17 Portland QVS fellow who has served both with New City Initiative, an organization that aims to end the cycle of homelessness through faith community involvement, and Urban Gleaners, a food re-purposing organization that fights childhood hunger in Oregon.

Posted in: Features, February 2018

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New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2017

By Staff on December 26, 2017

We’ve been sharing our most‐read articles of 2017 on Facebook and Twitter. Here is the full list. #5 Mystical Experience, the […]

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December Full Issue Access

By Staff on December 1, 2017

FJ Members can download the full PDF of the December issue on Conflict and Controversy or read any article online.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Full Access

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The Challenges We Face and Community We Forge

By Martin Kelley on December 1, 2017

An interview with Sa’ed Atshan.

Martin Kelley is Friends Journal’s senior editor.

Sa’ed Atshan is a professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College and holds a doctorate from Harvard University. He sits on the corporation of American Friends Service Committee and the board of Pendle Hill study center. He is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Features

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