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Remembering Elise Boulding: The Legacy of Her Journaling
Elise Boulding died on June 24, 2010, in Needham, Mass., just shy of her 90th birthday. Known for her accomplishments in many areas, she was a scholar, teacher, author, activist, mother, and long-time member of the Religious Society of Friends. She was a leader in founding three important fields of academic inquiry: women’s, peace, and […]
Mary Lee Morrison, a member of Hartford (Conn.) Meeting, is a writer and educator, community activist and volunteer, with interests in peace and global sustainablity and transformative pedagogy. She is the author of Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace (2005). Further reading of the journals of Elise Boulding can be found at http://​www​.earthenergyhealing​.org/​E​l​i​s​e​B​o​u​l​d​i​n​g​3​.​htm.
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Quaker Women I Have Known
“The women in my family do things,” said John Foster, the Quaker man I had just met in India. Much later, I learned he had written his parents about meeting me, saying, “the only thing that worries me is that she just wants to get married.” My letter of the same period to my parents […]
Georgana (Falb) Foster has been a member of Mt. Toby Friends Meeting in Leverett, Mass., for half a century. She has presented workshops on early New England Quaker women at the Friends General Conference Gathering and New England Yearly Meeting, and has written a number of local histories. She is an independent scholar of South Asian studies, collecting folk and pop art about goddesses of India.
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Lillian and George Willoughby
Raspberries, bread, serendipity, and nonviolence. Lillian and George Willoughby, members of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, were engaged with many projects around the world, and thousands of people have memories of how the Willoughbys affected them. I knew them well for over 40 years, and they taught me many unique, valuable lessons. My first vivid memory […]
Lynne Shivers, a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, has been a social activist, college teacher, and writer.
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Who Was Joy Hodgkin?
When my grandfather, Henry Hodgkin, migrated from England in 1930 to be the first director of studies at Pendle Hill, he did not come alone. He brought with him his wife, Elizabeth Joy Montgomery Hodgkin. Henry was strong and inspiring. His vision and passion steered Pendle Hill in a direction—though it has evolved with changing […]
Margaret (Meg) Hodgkin Lippert is the granddaughter of Henry and Joy Hodgkin. Meg was born a Friend and is currently a member of South Seattle (Wash.) Meeting. A former classroom teacher and author of over 20 books of multicultural folktales, she currently teaches storytelling for Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., and works with high school youth in Seattle. Her website is http://​www​.storypower​.net.
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The Life of Japanese Quaker Inazo Nitobe
At Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, numerous epistles are read from other yearly meetings throughout the world. Likewise Philadelphia sends its annual epistle and greetings to all yearly meetings. Japan Yearly Meeting’s epistle this year mentioned the “Nitobe lectures.” Friends outside of Japan may not know about the extraordinary life of Inazo Nitobe. My purpose here is […]
Samuel M. Snipes, a member of Fallsington (Pa.) Meeting, is a lawyer. He and other family members operate Snipes Farm and Education Center in Morrisville, Pa. He is active in many Bucks County peace activities.
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Quaking with Confidence
I’d like to clear up right away a question that seems to crop up repeatedly at these more public moments in my life, and that is where I got my name. My parents were strict atheists, one intellectually, one emotionally—any religion on the television and it would be turned off, and the vicar welcoming […]
Ben Pink Dandelion is Professor of Quaker Studies and Programmes Leader at the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke, and University of Birmingham, England. He worships at Sawley Meeting in the shadow of Pendle Hill. He has written numerous books and articles about Quakerism and Quaker history.
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Remembering Bonnie Tinker
Friend and activist Bonnie Tinker died on Thursday, July 2, 2009, in Blacksburg, Virginia, during the Friends General Conference Gathering. Bonnie, 61, was riding her bicycle on the Virginia Tech campus when a truck turned in front of her. She hit the truck and was then run over by it. She died at the scene. […]
Constance Grady served as an intern this past summer at Friends Journal. A resident of Wyndmoor, Pa., she is a senior at University of Chicago.
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April 2018: Healing
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Nurturing Growth and Healing through Stories
by Astuti Bijlefeld
Balancing Acts
by Ruthe Schoder-Ehri
Meeting for Worship for Healing
by Richard K. Lee and Sarah M. Lloyd
The Cost of a Healing Gift
by John Jeremiah Edminster
April 2018 Book Reviews
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