Half of the worldâs Friends live in Africa; Kenya alone has almost twice as many Friends as the United States. [âŚ]
Tag Archives | Kenya
Writing Opp: Friends in Africa (due July 8, 2019)
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
SELFâish: A Transgender Awakening
By Chloe Schwenke. Red Hen Press, 2018. 260 pages. $17.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. At Baltimore Yearly Meetingâs Womenâs Retreat two years ago, [âŚ]
Anna Carolyn McCormally is a member of Herndon (Va.) Meeting, and works as assistant to the executive secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation. She has a master's of fine arts in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South
Edited by Juman Abujbara, Andrew Boyd, Dave Mitchell, and Marcel Taminato. OR Books, 2018. 272 pages. $22/paperback; $10/eBook. âAgitate, agitate.â [âŚ]
Jerry Mizell Williams worships at Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
Posted in: August 2018 Books, Going Viral with Quakerism, Quaker Book Reviews
Moto and Me: My Year as a Wildcatâs Foster Mother
By Suzi Eszterhas. Owlkids, 2017. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 7â10. What a story! Suzi Eszterhas is a wildlife [âŚ]
Lucinda Hathaway is a member of Sarasota (Fla.) Meeting.
Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?Writing Opp: Going Viral with Quakerism (due 5/14)
Whatâs the Quaker message for today? How do we communicate it and how do we share it? What are some [âŚ]
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's DeskNew Worldwide Quaker Map Released
Friends World Committee for Consultation released a new map of worldwide Quaker population figures, its first such release since 2012.
Posted in: Blogs, Unfeatured
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
By Chuck Collins. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016. 267 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Once, when two Friends from Kenya were visiting, [âŚ]
Mary Gilbert is a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), and has been active on monthly and yearly meeting committees, and on the steering committee of Quaker Earthcare Witness. Mary is married to David White, has a son, a daughter-in-law, and a grandson. Mary will sing at the drop of a hat.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying
I Am Not a Religious Person
The literalness of religion vs. the litheness of spirituality.
Sarah Pennock Neuville is a junior at Garden Spot High School in New Holland, Pa., in her third year as a percussionist for marching, concert, and pit orchestra. She is a member of Kennett (Pa.) Meeting. She would like to be an engineer in neurogenetics and neurobiology.
Posted in: Features, February 2017
What Unites Us
If we want a world without war, we must first accept our own Quaker family.
Gretchen Castle serves as general secretary of Friends World Committee for ConsultationâWorld Office in London, which works across the four section offices around the world and represents Friends at the world level. Gretchen is a member of Doylestown (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Crossing Cultures, Features
August 2019: QuakerSpeak at Five
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Stripping Down Quakerism for the Internet by Max L. Carter
Meeting for Viewing: How QuakerSpeak Deepens Our Spirituality by Krista Barnard
Muslim? Quaker? Speak! by Naveed Moeed
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Your Gift by Mary Timberlake
At That Time by James Littwin
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