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The Mystic Soul of a More Whole Religious Society

By Viv Hawkins on January 1, 2019

How to move beyond denial and defensiveness when talking about race.

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)
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Seeking Solid Ground in the Money Swamp

By Pamela Haines on October 1, 2018

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 “Money, Community, and Integrity.” 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
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News August 2018

By Staff on August 1, 2018

British Faith and Practice; Grave marker for abolitionists; women’s theology conference.

Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, News
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Center Yourself

By Naomi Brangan on May 1, 2018

My journey through my Quaker faith and education all started in nursery school. I went to a small Quaker nursery [
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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?
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Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr.

By Staff on May 1, 2018

Ryan—Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr., 77, on October 17, 2017, in State College, Pa., of pneumonia, with his wife, Lauri, holding his [
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Posted in: Milestones, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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News, March 2018

By Staff on March 1, 2018

News of Friends: Yearly Meetings newsletter project; Quaker podcasts; Peacemaking panel; Appointment.

Posted in: News, Quakers and the Holy Land
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

By Reviewed by Larry Ingle on September 1, 2017

By Marcus Rediker. Beacon Press, 2017. 194 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $25.99/eBook. Should readers choose to read this compelling biography—and those who [
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Larry Ingle is an historian of Quakerism whose most recent publication is Nixon’s 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 Books
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Gertrude Parnell Marshall

By Staff on September 1, 2017

Marshall—Gertrude Parnell Marshall, 104, on September 28, 2016, in Medford, N.J. Gertrude was born on August 3, 1912, in Germantown, [
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Posted in: Milestones, September 2017
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Finally Breaking Down the Hedge?

By Thomas Hamm on June 1, 2017

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
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A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman

By Reviewed by Neal Burdick on June 1, 2017

By Dawn G. Marsh. University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 240 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom is a [
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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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