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Quaker organizations seek to adapt, continue work at a distance

By FJ News Editor on June 1, 2020

The pandemic is leading Friends organizations and their supporters to reflect on their missions and discern a way forward.

Erik Hanson and Windy Cooler are the news editors for Friends Journal. They contributed to the reporting of this story. Do you know about any Quaker news stories we should be covering? Send us tips at [email protected].

Posted in: Membership and Friends, News
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Phyllis Hoge

By Staff on May 1, 2019

Hoge—Phyllis Hoge, 91, on August 26, 2018, in Albuquerque, N.M. Phyllis was born on November 15, 1926, in Elizabeth, N.J., [
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Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Milestones
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El Paso Quakers on the Border Today

By Ann Birch on March 1, 2019

How Friends along the Mexican border are responding to needs.

Ann Birch is currently clerk of El Paso (Tex.) Meeting. She is a librarian who settled in on the border in the 1960s.

Posted in: Outside the Meetinghouse, Witness
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Intermountain Yearly Meeting attendees during the keynote discussion. Photo © Mary Klein.

Paying as Led

By Molly Wingate on February 1, 2019

The experiment with abundance continues.

Molly Wingate is a member of Colorado Springs (Colo.) Meeting and clerk of Intermountain Yearly Meeting. She taught writing for many years in a variety of settings. She founded and directs Poetry Heals, a nonprofit that teaches therapeutic poetry writing to people living difficult lives, especially teens, veterans, and homeless.

Posted in: Features, February 2019
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John Felton Gibbons

By Staff on January 1, 2019

Gibbons—John Felton Gibbons, 80, on April 20, 2018, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. John was born on October 6, 1937, in [
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Posted in: Milestones, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

By Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck on September 1, 2018

Edited by Eddie Moore Jr., Ali Michael, and Marguerite W. Penick‐Parks. Corwin, 2018. 472 pages. $27.95/paperback or eBook. Some years [
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Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting and lives at Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. She is passionate about ending racism with a current emphasis on criminal justice reform.

Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
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The author's father, Ralph G. Steinhardt, Jr., 1979.

Memories of My Father’s Memories

By Ralph G. Steinhardt on August 1, 2015

The humanity and inhumanity of the Manhattan Project.

Ralph G. Steinhardt, who was named after his father, is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and co-clerk of its Ministry and Worship Committee. He is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School and co-founder of its joint human rights program at New College, Oxford University (UK).

Posted in: August 2015: The Effects of War, Features
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