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The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society
Since 2014 through Undoing Racism Group, an unofficial group of Friends seeking to co-create Beloved Community, Viv Hawkins has learned much about racism; she has much yet to learn and do. A member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, she embraces a ministry to foster faithfulness and Lola Georg, her life partner.
Posted in: Online Features, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
Seeking Solid Ground in the Money Swamp
A Friends meeting looks beyond rainy days to build a better relationship with money.
Pamela Haines, a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting, delivered the keynote address at Intermountain Yearly Meeting in 2017 on âMoney, Community, and Integrity.â Her Pendle Hill pamphlet, Money and Soul, was published this spring. She is active in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Eco-Justice Collaborative and Friends Economic Integrity Project.
Posted in: Features, Meetings and Money
Center Yourself
My journey through my Quaker faith and education all started in nursery school. I went to a small Quaker nursery [âŠ]
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?News, March 2018
News of Friends: Yearly Meetings newsletter project; Quaker podcasts; Peacemaking panel; Appointment.
Posted in: News, Quakers and the Holy Land
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
By Marcus Rediker. Beacon Press, 2017. 194 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $25.99/eBook. Should readers choose to read this compelling biographyâand those who [âŠ]
Larry Ingle is an historian of Quakerism whose most recent publication is Nixonâs First Cover-up: The Religious Life of a Quaker President. A member of Chattanooga (Tenn.) Meeting, he is retired from the history department of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2017, September 2017 BooksGertrude Parnell Marshall
MarshallâGertrude Parnell Marshall, 104, on September 28, 2016, in Medford, N.J. Gertrude was born on August 3, 1912, in Germantown, [âŠ]
Posted in: Milestones, September 2017
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?
Have our Quaker institutions finally become obsolete?
Thomas D. Hamm is professor of history and director of Special Collections at Earlham College and a member of West Richmond (Ind.) Meeting in the New Association of Friends.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
By Dawn G. Marsh. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 240 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. William Pennâs Peaceable Kingdom is a [âŠ]
Neal Burdick is retired as senior writer/editor at St. Lawrence University, where he continues to teach advanced writing. Also a freelance writer and editor, he lives in Canton, N.Y., where he is a member of St. Lawrence Valley Meeting in Potsdam, N.Y., an allowed meeting under the care of Ottawa Meeting in Ontario, Canada.
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
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Spiritual Simplicity by Andrew Huff
My Year of Living Eschatologically by Muriel Edgerton
Selling Out to Niceness by Ann Jerome
A Quaker Schoolâs Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Erik Hanson
Slavery in the Quaker World by Katharine Gerbner
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