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Addicted to Fast Money
Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
By Greg Berman and Julian Adler. The New Press, 2018. 224 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook.
David P. Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He lives in Marlton, N.J., where he teaches middle school world and Holocaust history.
Posted in: Gambling, November 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Competition Who?
There was a girl named Kesha. She was 13 years old, and she was exceptionally good at running. She had […]
Taleah Dixon, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia, Pa.
Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project, Student Voices Project 2019
Among Friends: Opening up the Doors
Our introduction to the March issue, “Outside the Meetinghouse.”
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Outside the Meetinghouse
Experiments with Worship
Quaker worship takes to the streets.
Elizabeth Claggett-Borne enjoys biking to work, accompanying a family in sanctuary, and trying not to fidget in worship. She is grateful to be a part of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.). She teaches Exploring the Quaker Way, laughs at her hubris, and travels in the ministry.
Posted in: Features, Outside the Meetinghouse
Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations On Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond
By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 452), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam is a psychologist, Quaker, and artist/writer/dancer […]
Patricia Morrison attends South Mountain Meeting (NPYM) in Ashland, Ore. She works with artists, writers, musicians, and creative professionals to help them make a living, make a life, and make a difference (innerfireouterlight.com). She is working on a book about how to make work that is at the intersection of creativity and social good financially and otherwise sustainable.
Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity
By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness, […]
Rosalie Dance is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., and a sojourner at Belize City Meeting in Belize.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
By Miko Peled. Just World Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.95/paperback; $20.99/eBook. In Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation […]
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting, a Steering Committee member of the Quaker Palestine Israel Network, and serves on Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Peace and Social Concerns Committee.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, October 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
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