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To Imagine Change through Many Voices

By Detmer Kremer on November 1, 2018

The pages of a book can unpack the truths and realities of those we do not know.

Detmer Kremer is a writer and reader based out of the Netherlands and London, where he is currently attending graduate school. He is a former participant of Quaker Voluntary Service in Atlanta, and considers Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting one of his homes.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Features

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Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity

By Reviewed by Rosalie Dance on November 1, 2018

By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness, […]

Rosalie Dance is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a sojourner at Belize City Meeting in Belize.

Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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Handling Change and Creating Communities

By Steven Whinfield on August 1, 2018

Focused relationships in social media

Steven Whinfield’s background is in communication and advertising. He has been a part of building brands for many clients and is today an account representative for a large kidney dialysis corporation.

Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism

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Soft Soap and Doom

By Laia Sarukhan on May 1, 2018

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not […]

Laia Sarukhan, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School

Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family When a Loved One Is Incarcerated

By Reviewed by Alison James on May 1, 2018

By Becky Birtha, illustrated by Maja Kastelic. Albert Whitman and Company, 2017. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. With […]

Alison James is a member of South Starksboro (Vt.) Meeting.

Posted in: May 2018 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?

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Rahab

By Kristin Camitta Zimet on February 26, 2018

Poetry: “I lived in the wall, between the wilderness / and stony Jericho.”

Kristin Camitta Zimet lives in Winchester, Va.

Posted in: February 2018, Poetry

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Sue Powel Carnell

By Staff on January 1, 2018

Carnell—Sue Powel Carnell, 80, on August 19, 2017, at home at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Md. Sue was born […]

Posted in: Milestones, Quaker Lifestyles

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Maybe God Is Like That Too

By Reviewed by Dee Ann Birch Cameron on December 1, 2017

FJ Review: “Benjamin Schipper’s colorful, cartoon‐like illustrations of big city life came as a welcome surprise, in contrast to the bucolic […]

Dee Cameron is a member of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting. She is a grandmother and a retired school librarian.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, December 2017 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews

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Ellanor Stengel Fink

By Staff on December 1, 2017

Fink—Ellanor Stengel Fink, 71, on March 9, 2017, at home in Chevy Chase, Md. Ellie was born on June 22, […]

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Milestones

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How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation

By Reviewed by Phila Hoopes on August 1, 2017

By Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman. Avery, 2016. 288 pages. $26/hardcover; $17.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. “Based on our scientific evidence, I […]

Phila Hoopes is a freelance copywriter, Reiki practitioner, and gardener with a passion for deep ecumenism and deep ecology. She is a member of Homewood Meeting in Baltimore, Md.

Posted in: August 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, The Art of Dying

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