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The Role of Children鈥檚 Issues Books in Meeting Libraries
Tom and Sandy Farley are members of Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting, volunteer booksellers with EarthLight, and coauthors of the Earthcare for Children curriculum.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Life in the Meeting
Seeds That Change the World: Essays on Quakerism, Spirituality, Faith, and Culture
By Debbie L. Humphries. QuakerPress of FGC, 2017. 143 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Is it okay to shout out to Friends, [鈥
Brad Sheeks is a member of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting, and with his wife, Patricia McBee, has moved to Newtown to enjoy retirement and live closer to daughter, Jennie, and her family.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
By Gregory Boyle. Simon & Schuster, 2017. 224 pages. $26/hardcover; $16/paperback (available in September); $13.99/eBook. Five years ago I began [鈥
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns committees.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Spirit?
Spirit seems to have assumed a major office among Friends.
Ann Birch is聽a member of El Paso (Texas) Meeting; she is an academic reference librarian, grandmother, and actor in local theater.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Viewpoint
Center Yourself
My journey through my Quaker faith and education all started in nursery school. I went to a small Quaker nursery [鈥
Naomi Brangan, Grade 7, Buckingham Friends School, member of Wrightstown Meeting in Newtown, Pa.
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
To Build Is to Love
The stairs to the vast, rustic house creaked as I lugged my teal trunk up the steps. The bright sunlight [鈥
Quinn Daugherty, Grade 10, Westtown School, attender of Unami Meeting in Pennsburg, Pa.
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
All Teammates Deserve Respect
Five years ago, I tried out for a new hockey team. When I walked through the glass doors of the [鈥
William Reardon, Grade 8, Buckingham Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Finding My Community
I grew up going to a Quaker meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. I never truly liked going to meeting because [鈥
Jocie Resnik, Grade 9, Westtown School, member of Goshen Meeting in West Chester, Pa.
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Community or Competition
I shakily stepped out of the car. I had to grip the door for support. Even though it was a [鈥
Olivia Dietrich, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
Would You Still Love Me If I Were a Boy?
I remember the night I told my mom I wasn鈥檛 exactly a girl. I was so worried about telling her. [鈥
Sawyer Beveridge, Grade 6, Sidwell Friends School
Posted in: Student Voice Project 2018, Student Voices Project, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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Books That Have Changed Us
November 2018 Full Issue Access
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To Imagine Change through Many Voices by Detmer Kremer
The Light Will Rip You Up by Caroline Morris
Genesis by John A. Minahan
Jesse Stuart鈥檚 The Thread That Runs So True by Robert Stephen Dicken
Poetry:
Communion by Nancy L. Bieber
If I Had Grown in Some Generous Place by
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