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Brightened Corner

By Ken Gibble on December 1, 2019

FJ Poetry: “They blew into the visitors’ room
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Ken Gibble lives in Camp Hill, Pa.

Posted in: Poetry, Quaker Kids
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Addicted to Fast Money

By Rita Willett on November 1, 2019

Considering a twenty‐first‐century Quaker perspective on gambling.

Rita Willett is a retired physician who now serves as a prison chaplain. She is a member of Richmond (Va.) Meeting, a graduate of Earlham School of Religion, and a former participant and teacher in the Spiritual Nurturer Program of School of the Spirit Ministry.

Posted in: Features, Gambling
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration

By Reviewed by David P. Austin on November 1, 2019

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
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The March 23 outdoor worship at the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pa. © Eric Gjertsen/Shut Down Berks Coalition.

News, June‐July 2019

By Staff on June 1, 2019

News of Friends

Posted in: June/July 2019: Food Choices, News
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Competition Who?

By Taleah Dixon on May 1, 2019

There was a girl named Kesha. She was 13 years old, and she was exceptionally good at running. She had [
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Taleah Dixon, Grade 6, Greene Street Friends School in Philadelphia, Pa.

Posted in: Friendly Competition?, Student Voices Project, Student Voices Project 2019
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Forum April 2019

By Staff on April 1, 2019

Letters from our readers.

Posted in: Forum, Humor in Religion
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Among Friends: Opening up the Doors

By Martin Kelley on March 1, 2019

Our introduction to the March issue, “Outside the Meetinghouse.”

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Among Friends, Outside the Meetinghouse
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Monthly worship along Fresh Pond Parkway in front of Raytheon in Cambridge, Mass. The author is seen standing. © Skip Schiel.

Experiments with Worship

By Elizabeth Claggett-Borne on March 1, 2019

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
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Art as Soul’s Sanctuary: Meditations On Arts and Spirituality among Quakers and Beyond

By Reviewed by Patricia Morrison on February 1, 2019

By Jennifer Elam. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 452), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. Jennifer Elam is a psychologist, Quaker, and artist/writer/dancer [
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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
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Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity

By Reviewed by Rosalie Dance on November 1, 2018

By Sue Williams. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 451), 2018. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. This refreshing little work introduces us to goodness, [
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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
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