Tag Archives | Israel

Lens on Syria: A Photographic Tour of Its Ancient and Modern Culture

By Reviewed by Brent Bill on June 1, 2019

By Daniel Demeter. Just World Books, 2016. 304 pages. $49.99/hardcover; $29.99/paperback. While I do know a fair amount about photography, […]

Brent Bill is a photographer, writer, and retreat leader who lives in Indiana. A member of West Newton (Ind.) Meeting, his newest book Beauty, Truth, Life, and Love will be released in September 2019.

Posted in: June/July 2019 Books, June/July 2019: Food Choices, Quaker Book Reviews

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… And Forgive Them Their Debts: Lending, Foreclosure, and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year

By Reviewed by Forrest Curo on March 1, 2019

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 […]

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

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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

By Reviewed by Zae Asa Illo on January 1, 2019

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)

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Sweet Baby Jesus

By Patricia Wild on December 1, 2018

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 Christianity

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Forum April 2018

By Staff on April 1, 2018

Letters from our readers

Posted in: Forum, Healing

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Among Friends: All Land Is Holy Land

By Martin Kelley on March 1, 2018

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

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News February 2018

By Staff on February 1, 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

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Writing Opp: Quakers and the Holy Land

By Martin Kelley on October 31, 2017

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

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Beauty; Beauty Everywhere

By Geoff Knowlton on August 1, 2017

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

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