Our introduction to the September 2017 issue.
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Among Friends: Quaker Tools, New and Revisited
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal:聽[email protected]
Posted in: Among Friends, September 2017
Forum, September 2017
Letters from our readers: Overworked caregivers; Minding our Light?; More listening, less explaining. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world鈥檚 largest online […]
Posted in: Forum, September 2017
Integrity and the Ultimate
How can we talk about death when we鈥檙e so vibrantly alive?
Susann Estle is a chaplain at the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Greencastle, Ind.; a PRN chaplain at Hendricks Regional Health Hospital; and a part-time pastor at Hopewell Friends Church in Dana, Ind. She is mother to Case and Chloe.
Posted in: Online Features, The Art of Dying
You Will Not Have My Hate
By Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor. Penguin Press, 2016. 144 pages. $23/hardcover; $15/paperback; $11.99/eBook. Antoine Leiris began writing You Will Not Have My Hate (originally published in French as Vous N鈥橝urez Pas Ma Haine by Librairie Arth猫me Fayard, Paris) in the days after his wife, H茅l猫ne, was killed in the November 2015 Paris terror […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and the DC Peace Team. She also serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Peace and Social Concerns Committee.
Posted in: August 2017 Books, Books, The Art of Dying
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?
Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?
Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of Special Collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting in the New Association of Friends.
Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem
We have to find ways to build relationships and maintain our Quaker tradition. 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign in here! Not an FJ member? To read this piece, please join us today! For $28, you’ll get: A聽year of聽Friends Journal delivered to your mailbox (11 issues) and email Full, instant access to the world鈥檚 largest online […]
Margaret Fraser has served as interim pastoral minister at West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting, executive secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas, and dean of Pendle Hill study center in Wallingford, Pa. She was presiding clerk of the New Association of Friends from 2013 to 2015.
Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Every person deserves a chance and the right to have that chance
Student Voices: “The America I envision is an America where all people are treated equally. It is an America where no matter how you look or how you identify, you will be accepted. It is an America that is respected and valued as a country.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
I urge you to look past your empire of business and riches, and ask yourself a question
Student Voices: ” All that said, I have a few pieces of final advice for you: Be kind. Build bridges, not walls. Rather than tearing others down, build others up. And remember, love always trumps hate.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
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God as a Cow and the Duck Index by Tina Tau
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Quaker Bestsellers from the FGC Gathering
A Mysticism for Our Time by L. Roger Owens
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