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John Felton Gibbons

By Staff on January 1, 2019

Gibbonsā€”John Felton Gibbons, 80, on April 20, 2018, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. John was born on October 6, 1937, in [ā€¦]

Posted in: Milestones, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)
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An Indigenous Peoplesā€™ History of the United States

By Reviewed by David Etheridge on January 1, 2017

By Roxanne Dunbarā€Ortiz. Beacon Press, 2014. 296 pages. $16/paperback; $15.99/eBook. This book is part of Beacon Pressā€™s ReVisioning American History [ā€¦]

David Etheridge is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and clerk of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Working Group on Racism. He previously worked for over 20 years as an attorney in the Indian Affairs Division of the Solicitorā€™s Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Posted in: January 2017 Books, January 2017: Quakers in the Workplace
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Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance

By Reviewed by Richard Taylor on November 1, 2016

By Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby. Pluto Press, 2015. 211 pages. $28/paperback; $21.99/eBook. As a Quaker who believes in both [ā€¦]

Richard Taylor is a member of Germantown Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., and is active in the meetingā€™s task force on ending mass incarceration. Dick is also developing a website designed to encourage Christian preachers to avoid anti-Judaism in their sermons and in the churchā€™s readings from the New Testament.

Posted in: November 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Quakers and Social Media
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