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Writing Opp: Friends and Gambling
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: From the Editor's Desk
Butcher Hogs for Sale
A sign on the side of the road sparks a crisis of conscience.
Dayna Baily lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with her family, for whom plant-based cooking is both a delicious source of good nutrition and a private form of nonviolent protest against a cruel status quo. She worships at Penn Hill Meeting in Wakefield, Pa., and participates in Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Right Relationship with Animals Working Group.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2019: Food Choices
Becoming a Welcoming Church AND Scrappy Church
Becoming a Welcoming Church By Thom S. Rainer. B&H Publishing Group, 2018. 128 pages. $12.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Scrappy Church: God’s Not […]
David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism.
Posted in: June/July 2019 Books, June/July 2019: Food Choices, Quaker Book Reviews
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
By Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Rebecca Green. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 208 pages. $20/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. A memoir has the power […]
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: June/July 2019 Books, June/July 2019: Food Choices, Quaker Book Reviews
Skirting Around the Competition
Our introduction to the May issue on “Friendly Competition?”
Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal. [email protected]
Posted in: Among Friends, Friendly Competition?
Quiet AND Shhh…God Is in the Silence
Quiet By Tomie dePaola. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. […]
Paul Buckley is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Quakerism and travels in the ministry, urging revival among Friends. His most recent book is Primitive Quakerism Revived: Living as Friends in the Twenty-First Century.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book ReviewsAndrew Lee March
March—Andrew Lee March, 85, of Lakewood, Colo., on July 15, 2018, from Alzheimer’s disease. Andy was born on October 14, […]
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Milestones
Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations On Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond
By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 452), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam is a psychologist, Quaker, and artist/writer/dancer […]
Patricia Morrison attends South Mountain Meeting (NPYM) in Ashland, Ore. She works with artists, writers, musicians, and creative professionals to help them make a living, make a life, and make a difference (innerfireouterlight.com). She is working on a book about how to make work that is at the intersection of creativity and social good financially and otherwise sustainable.
Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews![Image: Two school-aged girls collaborate at whiteboard. Caption: To live as Friends, young people need access to Quaker experience [DONATE]](https://www.friendsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/WebGraphics_SummerCampaign_Friends_2018.05.14-v1-03-1.png)
June‐July 2019
Features
The Ministry of Quaker Farmers by Rachel Van Boven
Feeding Young Adults with a Taste of Abundance by Emily Provance and Niadwynwen Thomas
Vegetarianism in Quaker History by John Sniegocki
Butcher Hogs for Sale by Dayna Baily
A Vegan Offers Three Reasons for Hope by Margaret Fisher
Letting the Higher Power Do It by Anonymous
Online Features
Chose a Resilient Community by Craig Jensen and Suzanna Schell
The Great Food Transformation by Elizabeth Root
Food Choices, Relationship, and God by Lorene Ludy
Interrupting the Family Barbecue by Jim Ross
A Critique of Health Consciousness by Caroline Morris
Poetry
Aspect of Loss by Karie Firoozmand
Turkey Vultures by Charles Weld
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