Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America By Carol Faulkner. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 291 pages. $45/hardcover. Even though I have a high appreciation for the legacy of Lucretia Mott […]
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Jan de Hartog: Activist and Storyteller
In 1963, tiny, unprogrammed Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Texas, started having its Sunday meetings for worship in Jeff Davis Hospital, a charity institution of the city. The meeting’s move was to support a concern by Jan and Marjorie de Hartog, who had been led to volunteer as orderlies in this hospital, which primarily served […]
Ann Walton Sieber is a journalist and a member of Live Oak Meeting in Houston, Tex. This is an abridgement of “Jan de Hartog: A Captain on the Ocean of Light and Love,” which appeared inThe Best of Friends, ed. Chuck Fager, vol. 1, 1998, pp. 24–50. The quoted material in this article comes from the author’s interviews with Jan and Marjorie de Hartog. An obituary for Jan de Hartog appeared in Friends Journal in August 2003.
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June/July 2018: Creativity and the Arts
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Art That Works by Joey Hartmann-Dow
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