By Michael Hudson. ISLET‐Verlag Dresden, 2018. 340 pages. $29.95/hardcover; $26.95/paperback. The authors of the Bible never guessed how puzzled we […]
Tag Archives | Israel
… And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year
Forrest Curo is a member of San Diego (Calif.) Meeting (but currently attending La Jolla [Calif.] Meeting) and founder/editor of _Street Light _(1997–2001), a monthly tabloid on poverty issues modelled on American Friends Service Committee's Street Spirit.
Posted in: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
By Frances FitzGerald. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 752 pages. $35/hardcover; $20/paperback; $14.99/eBook. Frances FitzGerald offers a spectacular sweep of the […]
Zae Asa Illo (formerly David Breitzmann) is a member of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting. He has a nearly two-year standing anchor committee and has been engaged in street preaching for several months. He is also working on releasing a collection of poetry, launching a new social enterprise, and applying to seminary in 2020.
Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)Sweet Baby Jesus
The present‐tense verbs of George Fox.
A convinced Friend since 1982, Patricia Wild is a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), where she serves on its Ministry and Counsel and Prison Fellowship Group. Her latest "book, _WellingUp.net_, is an interactive, experimental website that tells a Quaker novel online using podcasts and supplementary materials and links.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and ChristianityForum April 2018
Letters from our readers
Among Friends: All Land Is Holy Land
An introduction to our March issue on Quakers and the Holy Land.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and the Holy Land
News February 2018
News of Friends: Statement from AFSC on being banned from work in Israel; Remembering Muted Voices symposium; Quakers in Britain […]
Posted in: February 2018, News
Writing Opp: Quakers and the Holy Land
In March 2018 Friends Journal is publishing an issue on religion and politics in the Middle East. We could have […]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. Email: [email protected]
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Beauty; Beauty Everywhere
The sound of machines, monitors, and people in the hallway evaporated; it felt like being in meeting for worship when […]
Geoff Knowlton grew up Quaker and was later ordained in the United Church of Christ. He returned to the Friends and joined Worcester (Mass.) Meeting. He worked for a small hospice in New Hampshire and is currently a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and attachment-related disorders.
Posted in: Online Features, The Art of Dying
News, March 2017
News from Friends: NEYM donates records to UMass Amherst; Quaker gives invocation at Pennsylvania State Senate; Cambridge Friends worship as […]
Posted in: News, Race and Anti-Racism
Who Is My Neighbor?
Can we reject unacceptable actions and still find ways to touch those neighbors in pain?
Ellie Beach lives in Hiram, Ohio.
Posted in: January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace, Viewpoint
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April 2019
Features
Fox News: George Fox Speaking by Donald W. McCormick
Laughing for the Wary by Howard R. Macy
Finding Lightness in the Light by Kerry O’Regan
Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition by Andrew J. Bergman
Poetry
I Have Learned by Marion Goldstein
Blessing by Ken Gibble
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