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RuthEmma Hare Hancock

By Staff on June 1, 2019

Hancock—RuthEmma Hare Hancock, 93, on August 9, 2018, in Greensboro, N.C. Ruth was born on April 3, 1925, in Johnson […]

Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, Milestones
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<i>The Meeting House</i> by Mark Reigelman II, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Mass. Photo © Sarah Nichols. Read more in our <a href="/quaker-humor-intro/">introduction to this issue</a>.

April 2019 Full Access

By Staff on April 1, 2019

Friends Journal members can download the full PDF or read any article online.

Posted in: Full Access, Humor in Religion, Unfeatured
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Satire, Peace, and the Mennonite Tradition

By Andrew J. Bergman on April 1, 2019

What’s the difference between a Mennonite and a Quaker?

Andrew J. Bergman is a Mennonite writer from Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Mennonite satire website The Daily Bonnet.

Posted in: Features, Humor in Religion
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I Have Learned

By Marion Goldstein on April 1, 2019

FJ Poetry: All these months I have made progress…

Marion Goldstein lives in Cedar Grove, N.J.

Posted in: Humor in Religion, Poetry
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Modern Psalms in Search of Peace and Justice

By Reviewed by William Shetter on February 1, 2019

By Dwight L. Wilson, illustrated by Nancy Marstaller. Friends United Press, 2017. 226 pages. $16/paperback. The psalms of the Bible […]

William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. His thoughts on "The Psalms as Spiritual Directors" are scheduled to appear in the March 2019 issue of Presence.

Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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Alene Winifred Brown Hall

By Staff on February 1, 2019

Hall—Alene Winifred Brown Hall, 91, on January 11, 2017, in Tucson, Ariz. Wini was born on August 10, 1925, in […]

Posted in: February 2019, Milestones
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Patricia Lea

By Staff on August 1, 2018

Lea—Patricia Lea, 83, on January 28, 2018, in Mount Joy, Pa. Pat was born Patricia Lea Olson on March 15, […]

Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Milestones
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Writing and Marketing Crime Fiction

By Edith Maxwell on June 1, 2018

Holding onto the testimonies as the village death count rises.

Agatha- and Macavity-nominated Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and short stories. As Maddie Day she writes the Country Store Mysteries. Maxwell is recording clerk of Amesbury (Mass.) Meeting, president of Sisters in Crime New England, and lives north of Boston. Find her at edithmaxwell.com.

Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
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March 2018 Full Issue Access

By Staff on March 1, 2018

FJ Members can download the full PDF of the March issue or read any article online.

Posted in: Full Access, Quakers and the Holy Land
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Trouble in the Tribe; We Will Not Be Silenced; On AntiSemitism

By Reviewed by Steve Chase on March 1, 2018

Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel By Dov Waxman. Princeton University Press, 2016. 316 pages. $29.95/Hardcover; […]

Steve Chase is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting and currently serves as the Manager of Academic Initiatives at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he is the author of the Pendle Hill Pamphlet Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights (reviewed in our October 2017 issue). He is also a regular contributor to Minds of the Movement, an ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance.

Posted in: March 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and the Holy Land
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