By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook. If the pilgrim’s path is never easy, how does […]
Tag Archives | pacifism
Why I Am a Pacifist
Jerry Mizell Williams is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2019, September 2019 Books
Pacifism Revisited
By avoiding pacifism in the twentieth century, we skirted opportunities to unlearn racism.
Katherine HawkerSelf lives in St. Louis, Mo.
Posted in: Humor in Religion, Viewpoint
Civility Can Be Dangerous
In 1934, AFSC co‐founder Henry Cadbury advised Jewish rabbis to be gentler on Hitler. Is civility a substitute for morality?
Lucy Duncan is the director of Friends Relations at the American Friends Service Committee.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, Online Features
We Answered with Love: Pacifist Service in World War I
Edited by Nancy Learned Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2016. 412 pages. $19.95/paperback. In 1917 Mary Peabody and Leslie Hotson were […]
Beth Taylor is a member of Westerly (R.I.) Meeting and is the co-director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University and the author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
The Anti‐War: Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People
By Douglas Gwyn. Inner Light Books, 2016. 208 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.50/paperback. Doug Gwyn may have given more thought to the […]
Paul Buckley is a Quaker historian and theologian. He is a member of Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Essential Elias Hicks is his most recent book for Friends.
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, April 2017 Books, Quaker Book ReviewsForum: June/July 2016
A resource for Quakers to connect Your feature “Quaker Works” (FJ Apr.) serves a very current need. In their reorganizations, […]
Posted in: Departments, Forum, June/July 2016: Almost Quaker
A Pacifist’s Defense of the Media
Journalistic integrity and speaking truth to media power.
Justin Leverett is a practicing Quaker with roots in Reform Judaism. He lives near Portland, Ore., working as a barista and blogging during free time. He is deeply informed by his time in Quaker Voluntary Service as a fellow in Atlanta, Ga., from 2012 to 2013. His passions include media, French language and culture, and music.
Posted in: Features, November 2015: Books and Pop Culture
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