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Quilting as Ministry

By Kayla Schneider-Smith on February 1, 2018

Quilting as healing at a Quaker Voluntary Service house.

Kayla Schneider-Smith is a 2016–17 Portland QVS fellow who has served both with New City Initiative, an organization that aims to end the cycle of homelessness through faith community involvement, and Urban Gleaners, a food re-purposing organization that fights childhood hunger in Oregon.

Posted in: Features, February 2018

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Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on January 1, 2018

By Drew G. I. Hart. Herald Press, 2016. 157 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. A few months ago, I walked to […]

Posted in: January 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Lifestyles

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Catherine Balderston Jones Gaskill

By Staff on January 1, 2018

Gaskill—Catherine Balderston Jones Gaskill, 90, of John Knox Village, Orange City, Fla., on July 27, 2017. Cathy was born on […]

Posted in: Milestones, Quaker Lifestyles

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Let’s Grow Together

By Gail Whiffen on December 1, 2017

An interview with Marjorie Herbert

This interview was conducted by associate editor Gail Whiffen. Our Let’s Grow Together series profiles those who are newer to Friends. Do you know someone we should interview? Reach us at [email protected]friendsjournal.org.

Posted in: Conflict and Controversy, Let's Grow Together

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Conscientious Objection: Is This for You? Discerning a Claim and Documenting It with Selective Service

By Reviewed by J. E. McNeil on November 1, 2017

By Curt Torell. Quaker House of Fayetteville, N.C., 2016. 209 pages. $15/paperback. This book is a niche book, but Quaker […]

J. E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and as an attorney a longtime supporter of those who say no to war. She spent 11 years as the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War. She’s trained hundreds of Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren, Unitarian, and other youth in writing a conscientious objector file.

Posted in: November 2017 Books, Quaker Libraries

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